The former Lagos governor who is running on a 'Muslim-Muslim' ticket for the 2023 presidency has been wooing Christian leaders to give a boost to his ambition.
The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has disowned the “Pentecostal Bishops Forum of Northern Nigeria” for holding a meeting with Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The former Lagos governor who is running on a 'Muslim-Muslim' ticket for the 2023 presidency has been wooing Christian leaders to give a boost to his ambition.
Last week, his pictures with people that appeared like religious leaders and tagged "Pentecostal Bishops Forum of Northern Nigeria" in a meeting went viral.
But reacting to the development, Deputy National Secretary of the PFN, Bishop David Bakare, told Daily Sun that the PFN does not know the group.
“There is nothing in PFN that is regionally based like Southern or Northern Pentecostal Bishops,” he said.
Bakare, who maintained that the PFN is an arm of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), said the position of the fellowship on the same faith presidential ticket of the APC has not changed.
“The meeting between Tinubu and the Pentecostal Bishops Forum of Northern Nigeria has nothing to do with PFN. I am speaking to you officially and authoritatively that the ranks of the Christian community and of course, the PFN which I represent, are not broken at all.
“The Pentecostal Bishops Forum of Northern Nigeria is not known to the PFN. The forum does not have any affiliation or relationship with the PFN that is registered with the government of this nation.”
He added that the position of the PFN “on same faith ticket still stands as it was in the beginning and we have not, for any reason, shifted our position on that matter.
"The PFN was not a part of the meeting with the presidential candidate that was highly politicised. We are, however, aware of the ripples in the public domain about this matter. I am speaking officially to clarify that the PFN has nothing to do with that organisation.
“We didn’t take such a decision, we have not met that political party and whatever we will do would be in the public domain. That group is on its own and has nothing to do with the real incorporated PFN. I looked at the photos (from the meeting) and the names. I could recognise about two people who are our members, but they speak for themselves.”