Nigeria presidential election: Tinubu鈥檚 religious gamble
One of Nigeria's presidential candidates, Bola Tinubu, is causing controversy after breaking a well-established political tradition of choosing a running-mate from a different religion.
Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is a Muslim and would normally be expected to pick a Christian running-mate. Instead, he has picked another Muslim, former Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima.
Sam Olukoya is a journalist in Lagos. He told Newsday that Mr Tinubu is a Muslim from the Christian south and that he is taking 鈥渁 huge gamble because in trying to get votes from the north, you are also losing a lot of votes from the Christian south鈥e has a fifty-fifty chance.鈥�
(Picture: Bola Tinubu, All Progressives Congress (APC) leader. Credit: REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde)
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