{"id":96055,"date":"2022-06-15T15:14:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T14:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=96055"},"modified":"2022-06-15T15:14:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T14:14:51","slug":"tinubu-should-go-for-a-muslim-running-mate-orji-kalu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/tinubu-should-go-for-a-muslim-running-mate-orji-kalu\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu should go for a Muslim running mate \u2014 Orji Kalu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chief Whip of the Senate and former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, All Progressives Congress, APC, Abia North has asked the Presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to pick a Muslim as his running mate ahead of 2023 Presidential poll.<\/p>\n<p>Answering questions from Journalists Wednesday, Senator Kalu who insisted that there was\u00a0 nothing wrong if\u00a0 Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, runs a Muslim-Muslim ticket, said that it would be politically naive for Tinubu, a minority Muslim from the South-West to choose a minority Christian from the North as his running mate.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nKalu who urged the Christians to relax, said that wife of the APC Presidential candidate, Senator Oluremi Tinubu is a Pastor in a renowned Pentecostal Church.<\/p>\n<p>Details later\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Whip of the Senate and former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, All Progressives Congress, APC, Abia North has asked the Presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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