Borno State Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Bishop Naga Mohammed, says it’s not true that he has thrown his weight behind the choice of the former governor Kashim Shettima as the running mate to the All Progressives Congress’ presidential flagbearear, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
He said the reports that have gone viral on social media were unfounded.
Bishop Mohammed said he neither granted any interview to any journalist nor issued any press statement to that effect.
The cleric told Punch that the story which had gone viral was taken from the statement he made in 2017 when Boko Haram was wreaking havoc in Borno State during Shettima’s tenure as the governor.
The CAN chairman said, “I have not granted an interview to anybody and never issued any statement. Was it not yesterday (Sunday) they said they had appointed him (Shettima)? How come I granted interview at the APC secretariat?
“Nobody called me. No journalist called me, except when this thing happened, when the papers were carrying it viral, then people were calling me.
“Right now, I’m somehow angry and not even composed to talk very well. The story they are carrying was in 2017 when Boko Haram was devastating Borno when Kashim Shettima was the governor.
“They picked that story and I, being CAN chairman, they now levelled it against me. I am just framed up and I don’t even have trust speaking with journalists, including you, because I don’t know what else you will write.”