Pastor Bribena Efiye of the Redeemed Christian church of God has, in
interview with the Daily Sun newspaper, stated that APC picked Osinbajo
as their vice-presidential flagbearer to give the illusion that Pastor
E.A. Adeboye, G.O. of RCCG is supporting Buhari's election bid.
“As a pastor in the RCCG, I will not vote for Buhari simply because he
has picked Osinbajo as his running mate,” Efiye said emphatically. “One can see the APC trying to launder the image of someone who has consistently allied himself to religious fundamentalism,” he continued. “A case in point is Buhari’s utterances in the run up to the 2011 general elections where he categorically said that Muslims should not vote for Christians and that Northerners should not vote for a Southerner. “That, for me, is a very serious issue. So, the fact that Prof Yemi Osinbajo, who is a pastor in the RCCG, was picked as his running mate does not take care of that issue. Rather, it makes one to believe that picking Osinbajo is a deliberate attempt to launder Buhari’s image. APC is only trying to pull wool over the eyes of the Nigerian electorate…”
“The propaganda machinery of APC is only trying to create the impression that the GO of the RCCG and the Church have backed Buhari because he picked Osinbajo as his running mate. There is nothing that is further from the truth… The G.O. has made it clear that he is father of everybody because he has children in both PDP and APC.”
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