Nigeria Decides 2023: Shehu Sani Reveals How An Imam Attempted To Campaign For A Presidential Candidate In The Mosque

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Nigeria Decides 2023: Shehu Sani Reveals How An Imam Attempted To Campaign For A Presidential Candidate In The Mosque

Former Kaduna lawmaker, Shehu Sani has taken to Twitter to disclose what happened during worship at a mosque on Friday.

It is a general belief in Nigeria that Imams try to convince their congregants to vote a particular candidate on the eve of crucial elections.

Nigeria holds its presidential and National Assembly elections today, Saturday 25th of February, 2023.

There are eighteen presidential candidates on the ballot, but the top contenders include Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP.

Shehu Sani, who represented the Kaduna Central Senatorial district in the eighth Assembly, said that the Imam in his mosque was about to announce to the people the candidate to vote for but had to change his mind due to the presence of youths in the mosque.

“Today, the Imam of our Friday mosque wanted to campaign for one candidate, when he noticed that the youths suddenly filled up the mosque, he stylishly changed the sermon to the story of Pharaoh in Egypt,” he tweeted on Friday.