Bishop Naga Mohammed, the Borno State Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, has denied social media reports that he had backed the APC’s selection of former Borno State Governor Alhaji Kashim Ibrahim Shettima as the party’s running mate for president Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the 2023 election.
He claimed that he never gave a journalist an interview and never made a press announcement to that effect.
Mohammed claimed that the narrative that had gone viral was based on something he said in 2017, when Boko Haram was wreaking havoc in Borno State and 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.”
