July 23rd: Weekly Catch-Up On Naija’s Political Drama: APC Hires Fake Bishops; Tinubu Doesn’t Know His Party; PDP Using Oby Ezekwesili’s Picture For Campaign

APC Hires Fake Bishops To Attend Its Vice-Presidential Candidate’s Unveiling.

On Wednesday, July 20, the All Progressive Congress (APC), assembled at Abuja to unveil its vice presidential candidate, Senator Kashim Shettima, for the 2023 elections.

The party was highly criticised by Christian leaders and other Nigerians after it decided to run a Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket in the forthcoming election.

As a result of this, the APC had to hire fake bishops and clergymen to attend its vice presidential candidate’s unveiling to create the impression that they were being supported despite their controversial Muslim-Muslim ticket.

The fake bishops, who were poorly dressed, were told to sit in the overflow, as there was no space for them in the main hall.

After the event, there came one of the con artists, complaining that he and his fellow bishops were cheated by the APC hirelings who promised to pay them N100,000 each for the job but ended up giving them N40,000 and some N30,000.

See images of the bishops below…

Oby Ezekwesili Warns PDP On Using Her Picture For Its Campaign.

Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili called out The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Twitter for using her image in their campaign material without her consent.

The PDP’s official Twitter handle had posted a campaign material (now deleted) with her image on it, which claimed that Atiku, its presidential candidate hired Mrs Ezekwesili, Mr Soludo, Gov El-Rufia and Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala during his time as the Vice President of Nigeria under former President Obasanjo.

In response to this, the former Minister of Education warned the PDP, stating that she was never appointed by Atiku and that her images should not be used without her consent.

Soon after her warning, The PDP’s Twitter handle took down the post.

As a result of the event, Nigerians on Twitter mocked the party and accused it of going to any extent to deceive the public.

See the PDP’s now-deleted post below…

Tinubu Thinks He Is The Presidential Candidate Of Action Congress.

The All Progressive Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu was seen in a viral video, saying that he and his people were members of the Action Congress.

The Action Congress, which was founded by the former Lagos State governor has since been no more after merging with several other parties in 2013.

See the video below…