2023: They Are Faceless – CAN Reacts As Abuja Pastors Endorse Tinubu For Presidency

The Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has received the support of some Christian clerics in Abuja to become Nigeria’s next President after Muhammadu Buhari.

The religious heads under the aegis of the Nigerian Coalition of Pastors for Good Leadership said as far as the presidential race is concerned, Nigeria is left with only two candidates, Bola Tinubu and Labour Party (LP) candidate Peter Obi.

The clerics, however, said the candidate of the APC has the right frame of mind to rule the country and is the best for the highest political position in the country come 2023.

Naija News understands that the Pastors stated this after a town hall meeting with some party chieftains of Tinubu’s support group, City Boy Movement.

In a statement jointly signed by the coalition president, Apostle Babatunde Oguntimehin,and secretary, Revd Friday Obi, the Christian spiritual heads said they are advocates of power shift and chose to support Tinubu being the ‘best’ when compared to Obi.

According to the clerics, it would be unfair for Nigerians to sacrifice the capacity of the APC candidate on the altar of the contentious Muslim-Muslim ticket.

The statement read: “It is with a deep sense of duty that we members of Nigerian Coalition of Pastors for Good Leadership decide this morning to make known our position on the coming national election, especially as it concerns the vexed issue of Muslim-Muslim ticket as adopted by the ruling APC.

Our primary responsibility will be less arduous with a functional nation and a working system. Given this, we have considered it a civic responsibility and a noble cause to support and promote the candidates that can best serve the interest of our nation toward realizing her dreams.

“For a start, we fully support the power shift to the South after President Muhammadu Buhari, a northerner would have ruled for eight years. This is for equity and fairness and in the spirit of the existing unwritten rule to have power rotate between North and South.