Muslim-Muslim Ticket: Buhari reacts to DSS intelligence report on Tinubu’s choice published online

The Villa has responded following an online report that President Muhammadu Buhari got intelligence reports projecting destabilization with the APC presidential candidate Bola Tinubu’s choice of Sen. Kashim Shettima as running mate.

On Friday, Peoples Gazette reported that the Department of State Service (DSS) warned about Buhari about the Muslim-Muslim ticket.

But the President through spokesman Garba Shehu debunked the information in a statement.

He urged Nigerians to “ignore a laughably puerile report by an apparently pirate online newspaper seeking to sow division and chaos on the choice of Governor Kashim Shettima as the Running Mate of our Party’s Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu”.

The online newspaper claimed some senior DSS agents fear that the Tinubu-Shettima ticket may lead to renewed sectarian crisis that could destabilise Nigeria.

The report, commissioned after Tinubu consulted on the choice of a running mate, was allegedly forwarded to the President through the National Security Adviser, NSA, Babagana Monguno.

“Our understanding is that the alliance will destabilise Nigeria and embolden attacks on Christian citizens from their fellow Muslim citizens,” the report stated in part

“The distrust Christians are likely to harbour against a presidency occupied by two Muslims won’t make our work easy at national security level”, an intelligence operative was quoted saying.

There have been uproars since Tinubu settled for Shettima, many claiming it is an Islamization agenda.