Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo, has suggested that Christians won’t support the presidential ticket having former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Mr Peter Obi come 2027.

Keyamo claimed that Nigerian pastors won’t come out to campaign for an 80-year-old Muslim president.
The Minister stated this while fielding questions on Channels TV’s Sunday Politics.

He said: “I want to do a small expo, but it’s an expo that will not help them either way. Do you know what they are working on? They want to bring Peter Obi and Atiku together.

“Once you make Obi the deputy to Atiku, the Christian demography will pull out of the 6 million votes Obi won in 2023.
“Don’t forget that the President also has a pastor who is a wife. So that Christian demographic we will snatch some of them and increase our votes.
“Don’t forget that South-East demography that supported him, once it’s Atiku, they will pull out. They will not support him.

“The pastors cannot come out campaigning for an 80-year-old Muslim president. They will not do that. So they will lose that demography.”