The Borno State Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Bishop Naga Mohammed, has denied endorsing the choice of former Governor Kashim Shettima as the running mate to the Presidential flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu.
Mr Mohammed he neither granted any interview to any journalist nor issued any press statement to that effect.
The clergy, in an interview with The Punch, said the purported endorsement report was taken from his comments in 2017 when Boko Haram was devastating the state at a time when Mr Shettima was the governor.
He 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.”
