2023: Keyamo Knocks Pastors Who Criticise APC Muslim-Muslim Ticket, Discloses What They Should Be Doing

2023: Keyamo Knocks Pastors Who Criticise APC Muslim-Muslim Ticket, Discloses What They Should Be Doing

  • Festus Keyamo, the spokesperson of the APC presidential campaign council, has urged Nigerian pastors to preach of the road to salvation and not to Aso Villa
  • The Senior Advocate of Nigeria said this while reacting to the recent comment of the PFN against the meeting of the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, and some bishops
  • Keyamo maintained that the PFN pastors are not members of the APC and should not be meddling with the affairs of the ruling party

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council spokesperson, Festus Keyamo, has urged pastors to stop meddling in politics.

The Senior Advocate reacted to recent comments from the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), The Cable reported.

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Keyamo replies PFN pastors on APC Muslim-Muslim ticket Photo Credit: UGC
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The deputy national secretary of the PFN, David Bakare, has dissociated the group from the Pentecostal Bishops Forum of Northern Nigeria members, who met with APC presidential candidate Bola Tinubu on Friday, September 23.

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The PFN also maintained that its position on the APC Muslim-Muslim ticket remained unchanged.

In an interview with Channels Television on Sunday, Keyamo said the religious body has no right to criticize the ruling party's decisions.

According to him, the PFN are not members of the APC and should go and vote on election day.

“They should not be coming to question the decision of our party publicly. The purpose of pastors or their duty is to lead people to heaven not to lead people to the [presidential] villa.

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Keyamo drags Atiku, Kwankwaso to 'trenches,' discloses their weaknesses in north

Legit.ng earlier reported that the APC presidential campaign council spokesperson, Festus Keyamo, has said the presidential candidates of the PDP and NNPP, Atiku Abubakar and Rabiu Kwankwaso, lacked street credibility.

Keyamo said this while expressing optimism that his party's presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, will enjoy the voting bloc that President Muhammadu Buhari got in the north.

The senior lawyer maintained that Atiku and Kwankwaso do not have the kind of integrity that Buhari has in the northern part of the country.

Meanwhile, Keyamo was also upbeat that his principal would secure bloc votes to win the election.

Source: Legit.ng

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Bada Yusuf (Politics and Current Affairs Editor) Yusuf Amoo Bada is an accomplished writer with 7 years of experience in journalism and writing, he is also politics and current affairs editor with Legit.ng. He holds B.A in Literature from OAU, and Diploma in Mass Comm. He has obtained certificates in Google's Advance Digital Reporting, News Lab workshop. He previously worked as an Editor with OperaNews. Legit’s Best Editor of the Year for Politics and Current Affairs Desk (2023). Contact: bada.yusuf.amoo@corp.legit.ng