The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has picked holes in a recent comment by the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
In a video making the rounds on social media, Tinubu had while fielding questions from journalists on how he would tackle climate change if elected president, said “a question of how do you prevent a church rat from eating poisoned holy communion.”
“We are a poor nation. They say firewood is not for fetch. They say we need to plant more trees and they are not giving us money.
“We need to tell the West, if you don’t guarantee our finances and work with us to stop this, we are not going to comply with your climate change”, Tinubu said.
Concerned Nigerians have dragged the former Lagos governor on social media asking him to retract his comment on Holy Communion and apologize to Nigerian Christians.
Reacting, PDP, in a statement issued by the spokesperson of the party’s Presidential Campaign Management Committee, Dino Melaye, tacked Tinubu saying the comment depicted an insult on Christians.
Dino lamented that after ignoring the Christian faith and fielded Muslim-Muslim ticket, the APC presidential candidate has further “rubbed insult on injury by calling in the Holy Communion into an unrelated conversation”.
He said, “the APC presidential candidate, Ahmed Bola Tinubu, plunged into new depths of desecration when by an unguarded and unrelated flow of thought he despised the body of Christ by profaning the sacrament of communion and besmirched the church.
“Having overlooked Christians in his choice of a running mate, he further rubbed insult on injury by calling in the Holy Communion into an unrelated conversation”.
