Vice President Kashim Shettima has urged senators to consider the country’s multi-religious composition when electing the next Senate President.
Addressing senators-elect in Abuja, Shettima noted that Nigeria is already in a tight situation with the Muslim-Muslim ticket which brought him and President Bola Tinubu to office.
“I’m ready to kneel and beg my colleagues for the sake of the nation. This is for the survival of this nation,” Shettima began.
“Here we are with a Muslim president and a Muslim vice-president in a multi-ethnic, multi-religious polity like ours. Number 1, 2. All of the same faith for God sake.
“Under the current dispensation, the worst, the most incompetent Southern Christian is better than the most puritanical Northern Muslim for the Presidency of the Senate,” the vice president said according to DailyPost.
Former Akwa-Ibom state governor, Godswill Akpabio, and Abdullaziz Yari, a former Zamfara state governor, are top contenders for the Senate president position.
