Okoye stated that it would be useless for people to register and fail to receive their PVCs, adding that without the cards, nobody will vote.

“It is uncultured for a younger person like Wike to say an elderly person like Atiku is lying.”

Wike is currently at loggerheads with the presidential candidate of his party, Atiku Abubakar.

Spokesman Festus Okoye said the July 31 deadline for the Continuous Voter Registration remains sacrosanct.

Tinubu’s decision to pick Shettima – who’s also a Muslim – as his running mate for the 2023 presidential election, continues to elicit outrage from APC’s Christians stakeholders.

The new party called Forward will be co-chaired by former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang and Christine Todd Whitman, the former Republican governor of New Jersey.

The proposed amendment follows the recent push by some groups for the CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele to join the presidential race.

The candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar, said in an ARISE interview that he parted with Tinubu because of his insistence on a Muslim-Muslim ticket.

Meanwhile, Atiku has continued to reach out to some of his old political associates in the ruling All Progressives Congress to smoothen rough edges ahead of the next general election.

President Saied’s opponents say it will entrench the powers he seized a year ago when he embarked on what has essentially been one-man rule.

Tinubu refuted claims by Atiku that the former Lagos State governor was the architect of a Muslim-Muslim ticket.

The presidential aspirant said giving out money to woo people was not the solution to the many problems facing Nigeria as a nation.

“My advice for Nigerian youths is that never let anybody tell you that you are the leaders of tomorrow.”