Omoyele Sowore, a presidential candidate for the African Action Congress (AAC), declared on Monday that Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the APC’s nominee, was unqualified to hold the office of president in 2023.
The publisher of the Sahara Reporters labelled the former governor of Lagos State as a subpar product and said as much on his Twitter account.
On July 10, Tinubu named Kashim Shettima, the former governor of Borno State, as his running mate.
The country’s Christian population has responded angrily to the development.
However, a number of other Nigerians applauded the choice and emphasised that skill, not religion, should be the deciding factor in choosing the nation’s next leader.
Sowore wrote: “There’s just no way to market a bad product like Bola Tinubu! Photographers, tailors, wordsmiths, influencers, producers and brand managers have all tried! It is not going to fly.”
