Shettima unveiling: Those clergymen were not fake, they are not big names in Christendom yet -Tinubu’s campaign team

Tinubu Campaign Organisation, TCO, has debunked reports making the rounds that they hired fake Bishops to attend the unveiling of Kashim Shettima as vice presidential candidate of the APC

Bola Tinubu on Wednesday, unveiled Kashim Shettima, a Northern Muslim as his running mate amid controversy surrounding a Muslim-Muslim ticket

The event had the presence of some unpopular Christian clergymen and women who dressed in cassock like Catholic bishops.

This has caused a lot of controversies as some of the “clerics” were recognized as ordinary citizens.

Reacting to this, the TCO Director of Media and Communication, Mr. Bayo Onanuga said the bishops were not hired

“We want to say that those clergymen were not fake, not mechanics or yam sellers as the purveyors of hatred have made Nigerians to believe in the social media. They are not big names in Christendom yet, they are gradually building up their missions, he said

“They are church leaders who genuinely believe that Nigerians must eschew politics of hatred and religious bigotry and rather embrace politics of peace and nation building.

“We, therefore, deplore the hysterical twisting of the presence of these men and women in cassocks and the false accusation against our candidates, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Senator Shettima”.