THE presidency has dismissed report that there was an advisory from the Department of State Service (DSS) to President Muhammadu Buhari against the choice of Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket by the All Progressives Congress (APC) for next year’s general elections, describing the purported story by an online news platform as fake news.
There have been controversy and condemnations following the choice of Senator Kashim Shettima, a Muslim, as the vice presidential candidate/running mate to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the party’s candidate, also a Muslim, with a section of the country, especially Christians, claiming that the choice does not reflect the religious diversity of the country.
Besides, the online report had claimed that the DSS, in its advisory to the President, had raised the alarm on the negative security implication of such a pair.
But the Presidency, in a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said: “We wish to advise well-meaning Nigerians to ignore a laughably puerile report by an apparently pirate online newspaper seeking to sow division and chaos on the choice of Governor Kashim Shettima as the running mate of our party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“This so-called newspaper is like a deadly virus. Stay safe by keeping away from its toxic reports.”
