“Christians by mouth and devils by heart”- Oshiomhole attacks critics of APC’s Muslim-Muslim ticket

Former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole has defended the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the ruling party for the 2023 presidential election.

Bola Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate, last month picked Kashim Shettima, the former governor of Borno, who is also a Muslim, as his running mate for the 2023 election, a development that has elicited outrage from key stakeholders, particularly the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and several Christians within the party.

But the defending the ticket while speaking on Arise Television on Wednesday, the former Edo state governor said that Nigerians must be wary of those trying to cause a religious war in the country over the ruling party’s Muslim-Muslim ticket.

He described the detractors as “Christians by mouth and devils by heart” and accused them of trying to incite religious violence.

According to him, Tinubu has shown religious tolerance by being married to a “Christian wife for about 40 years”.

“This country has survived religious wars. Even people who are on record of being prosecuted for misappropriating money that a Muslim governor appropriated in favour of Christian children who were displaced. They are now the new voice of Christianity,” the former labour leader said.

“So we must distinguish between Christian by mouth and devil by heart who wants to see Nigeria engulfed in a war that nobody can win. Asiwaju (Tinubu) has a Christian wife of about 40 years and is happily married. Is that not an example of what the nation should be?”