Globaltimes 
The Tinubu media office warned Nigerians yesterday that a smear campaign was being organized to damage APC presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s character.
“The orchestrated set-up of a poster campaign seeking to use a literary application of the Biblical story of Judas Iscariot’s betrayal of Jesus Christ to rope Asiwaju Tinubu into a storm of blasphemy is the most desperate antics of anti-Tinubu propagandists in recent times,” the group said in a statement.
“Our investigations have found that the same people who designed the offensive poster also created the blasphemy counter-campaign.” Their plan is to utilize both to incite rage against Asiwaju Tinubu’s aspirations.
“This effort was doomed from the start. This is certainly irresponsible and insensitive political advertising that aims to distort public perception against Asiwaju Tinubu, who is allegedly the most formidable presidential candidate in this campaign.
“It is commonly known that Asiwaju Tinubu is married to Senator Oluremi Tinubu, who is not just a Christian but also an ordained pastor, and that he has formed a very strong brotherly relationship with Christendom at all levels, as many bishops, pastors, and parishioners have stated over the years.”
“Asiwaju, a devout Muslim, has displayed religious tolerance and accommodation in both words and deeds. He believes in the Nigerian Constitution’s cardinal principle that no one should be discriminated against because of their religion or political beliefs.
“Moreover, as the previous governor of Lagos, which is a microcosm of Nigeria in terms of religious plurality, his matured management of religion as a way of life enabled inter-religious cooperation in Nigeria’s most industrialized state.”
