Abuja, May 27, 2023- Sen. Kashim Shettima, the Vice President-elect, says Tinubu’s administration has no plans to Islamise Nigerians.
Shettima said this in Abuja on Saturday at one of the public lectures ahead of Tinubu’s inauguration.
He said that there was no any agenda to Islamise Nigerians by the in-coming administration.
Shettima described his principal as a Muslim who is married to a Christian and a Pastor at the Redeemed Christian Church of God.
“I was a child of necessity, there is no Islamisation agenda.
“Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a Muslim who is married to a Christian, not only a Christian, but a pastor in the Redeemed Christian Church of God.
“Someone who has not Islamised his family, people are alluding that he has the intention to Islamise the nation,” he said.
The Vice President-elect said that he deliberately picked an Igbo man of the Catholic faith to be his Chief Security Officer.
“Politics is about perception. As we begin the formation of a new administration, I deliberately picked an Igbo man, a Catholic, to be my Chief Security Officer.
“For the purpose of inclusivity and togetherness again, I deliberately picked a Northern Christian to be my ADC.
“So the so-called founder of Boko Haram is going to be protected by…”
Also speaking at the lecture, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, the President of African Development Bank, decried the current fuel subsidy regime of the Federal Government, saying it was only benefitting the rich.
He said the continued payment for subsidised petroleum products was killing the Nigerian economy, adding that fuel subsidy gulped $10 billion in 2022 alone.
Adesina said that Nigeria kept borrowing for “what shouldn’t be borrowed for”, advising that such money should be channeled to national development.
“The place to start, therefore, is to remove the inefficient fuel subsidy.
“Nigeria’s fuel subsidies benefit the rich, not the poor, fueling their and the government’s endless fleet of cars at the expense of the poor,” he said. (GBN)
