Muslim-Muslim Ticket: CAN Assistant Scribe Vows to Campaign for Tinubu
By Idris Umar
The Assistant General Secretary of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Biodun Sanyaolu, has expressed readiness to work for the election of the All Progressives Congress APC duo of Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Kashim Shettima.
The national body of CAN has vehemently campaigned against the ticket because they are both Muslims.
His name had reportedly appeared on the Tinubu/Shettima 2023 Presidential Campaign Council signed by the APC National Secretary, Senator Iyiola Omisore.
Sanyaolu has owned up to his inclusion in the campaign council while publicly accepting the offer to work for the ticket.
He, however, explained that his decision was personal and had nothing to do with CAN.
According to him, he had been a card-carrying member of the APC since 2020, and had also contested for the Ogun Central senatorial ticket in the party’s primaries in May this year.
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Sanyaolu urged the public to place a distinction between his personal life and position in CAN, stressing that he had been active in partisan politics in the past three decades and had served as a Commissioner in Ogun State government between 2003 and 2007.
He said, “It is pertinent for me to state that as a member of CAN and an Apostle of the Eternal Sacred Order of the Cherubim & Seraphim (ESOCS) Church, I have been in partisan politics for over three (3) decades.
“I have also been involved in politics from the grassroots to state and national level. In the course of my political sojourn I have had cause to be a member of several political parties and lately, the All Progressives Congress (APC). My participation in partisan politics is largely known to the Church, members of the congregation and the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN).
“Since the return of democracy, I served in the cabinet of Otunba Gbenga Daniel, Governor of Ogun State as Commissioner between 2003 and 2007. I was later appointed as the Chairman of the Ogun State Christian Pilgrims Welfare Board.”
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