I won’t support any muslim politician to take over as senate president- Shettima

Vice president, Kashim Shettima on Sunday said he won’t support any muslim politician to take over the mantle of leadership in the senate.

Shettima, who stated this during an interactive session with senators in Abuja, said if it requires him to kneel down to beg the incoming senators to elect Godswill Akpabio (APC-Akwa-Ibom) and Sen. Barau Jibrin (APC-Kano) to lead the 10th Senate, he would definitely do so.

He said,“I’m ready to kneel down and beg my colleagues for the sake of the nation. This is for the survival of this nation.

“Here we are with a Muslim President and a Muslim Vice President in a multi-ethnic, multi-religious polity like ours.

“Number 1, 2; all of the same faith for God sake! Under the current dispensation, the worst, the most incompetent Southern Christian is better than the most puritanical Northern Muslim for the Presidency of the Senate.”