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Orji Kalu supports Muslim running mate for Tinubu

By Salami Azeez

June 15, 2022

CHIEF Whip of the Senate and ex Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, has asked the Presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to pick a Muslim as his running ahead of 2023 Presidential poll.

He made this known while speaking with Journalists on Wednesday, Senator Kalu who insisted that there was nothing wrong if Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, runs a Muslim-Muslim ticket, said that it would be politically naive for Tinubu, a minority Muslim from the South-West to choose a minority Christian from the North as his running mate.

Kalu who urged the Christians to relax, said that wife of the APC Presidential candidate, Senator Oluremi Tinubu is a Pastor in Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG).

The Senate Chief Whip said: “Let me tell you, in my house, my wife is the head of the house in reality. Even you men that are here, now that your wives aren’t here, they are the head.

“Like if I wear these clothes, my wife will tell me ‘My dear, these clothe is not good remove them’. Your wife will tell you you are supposed to eat Akara and Akamu, whether you argue with her, you must take that Akamu and your wife want you to pay children’s school fees, whether you argue or not, you must pay.

“The Christians should relax because Tinubu’s wife is a pastor and once she’s a pastor we are protected because she’s not a housewife. She has political knowledge.”