Muslim-Muslim Ticket: No Security Risk Advisory From DSS — Presidency

The Federal  goverment has denied an alleged advisory from the Department of State Service (DSS) warning of inpending national insecurity if persons of same faith  emerge as president and vice president of the country in 2023.

An online newspaper reported that the DSS has raised an alarm that the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, to nominate a fellow Muslim as vice-presidential candidate for 2023 presidential election “is a tailored recipe for renewed sectarian crises that could destabilise Nigeria.”

The report suggested that a DSS memo had been forwarded to President Muhammadu Buhari, urging him to consider the security implications of Tinubu’s choice before making it public.

 Quoting “an intelligence officer,” it claimed that the DSS produced the report and handed a copy to the National Security Adviser (NSA).

But a statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media & Publicity), Garba Shehu, on Friday said there is no DSS advisory before President Buhari on the APC running mate.

“We wish to advise well-meaning Nigerians to ignore a laughably puerile report by an apparently pirate online newspaper seeking to sow division and chaos on the choice of Governor Kashim Shettima as the running mate of our party’s Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

“This so-called newspaper is like a deadly virus.

"Stay safe by keeping away from its toxic reports,” the stament concludes.

There has been dissatisfaction amongst some groups in the country over the APC Muslim-Muslim 2023 presidential ticket.