Muslim Candidate Beats Christian <----- Nigerians Blast @CBNNews Over Headline (READ)

by Musa Abdullahi

Well it seems the headline reporting Nigeria’s elections as written by America’s Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) offends nigerians as they’ve accused the Network for promoting Religious Bigotry.

The Christian Network in its headline casting identified President Goodluck Jonathan and Christian and General Muhammadu Buhari as Muslim. Though the two candidates are actually of the said different religious beliefs but the headline elicited uproar.

The story written reads, “The party of former military dictator Muhammadu Buhari is celebrating their candidate’s victory in Nigeria’s presidential election.”

“The news comes as Boko Haram’s brutal jihad on the nation has exacerbated relations between Christians and Muslims.”

“Over the weekend, extremists killed 41 people, including a legislator, and scared hundreds of people from polling stations in the northeastern Nigeria.”

Most Nigerians who condemned the story insisted that not only Muslims voted for the President Elect, Christians also voted for General Buhari..

Read some of the tweets below condemning the storyline….

You are one of our problems “@CBNNews: Muslim candidate beats Christian in Nigerian presidential election, NOW WHAT? http://t.co/nMkRcay0HZ

— Fumbs ?? (@Wunmi_F) April 1, 2015

Pls get your news right. It was not about religion. RT@CBNNews: Muslim candidate beats Christian in Nigerian presidential RACE. @cute_ellyn

— Odein Regent (@odeinsouth) April 1, 2015

Shameless silly headline RT @CBNNews: Muslim candidate beats Christian in Nigerian presidential election, NOW WHAT? http://t.co/Wn672Ejp78

— ‘Seun Fakuade (@seunfakze) April 1, 2015

What sort of journalism is this??? Rubbish! “@CBNNews: Muslim candidate beats Christian in Nigerian presidential election, NOW WHAT?

— Maryam Abubakar (@mareeyama) April 1, 2015

we Nigerians deserve an apology from you for attempting to ignite religious violence”@CBNNews: Muslim candidate beats Christian in Nigerian”

— El Padrino (@prinzdeyemi) April 1, 2015