Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo, has suggested that Christians won’t support the presidential ticket having former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Mr Peter Obi come 2027.
Keyamo claimed that Nigerian pastors won’t come out to
campaign for an 80-year-old Muslim president.
The Minister stated this while fielding questions on
Channels TV’s Sunday Politics.
He said: “I want to do small expo, but it’s an expo that
will not help them either way. Do you know what they are working on is that
they want to bring Peter Obi and Atiku together.
“Once you make Obi the deputy to Atiku, the Christian
demography will pull out of that 6 million votes Obi won in 2023.
“Don’t forget that the President also has a pastor who is a
wife. So that Christian demographic we will snatch some of them and increase
our votes.
“Don’t forget too that South-East demography that supported
him, once it’s Atiku, they will pull out. They will not support him.
“The pastors cannot come out campaigning for an 80-year-old
Muslim president. They will not do that. So they will lose that demography.”
