2023: Shettima’s Choice has Unsettled PDP, Others – APC
By Ozumi Abdul
POLITICS DIGEST- The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Murtala Ajaka, has called on Nigerians to shun the opposition’s obsession with religion, saying the choice of Senator Kashim Shettima as vice presidential candidate has unsettled their camps.
Ajaka made the call on Monday, in a press statement issued in Abuja.
Tinubu had announced the former Governor of Borno State as his substantive running mate after he had a closed-door meeting with the President Muhammadu Buhari at his residence in Daura, on Sunday.
Describing Shettima as a man of knowledge and courage, Ajaka disclosed that the opposition parties, especially the Peoples Democratic Party, had been thrown off-balance and still reeling from Tinubu’s choice of Shettima.
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He said: “The sterling qualities of our vice presidential candidate, in person of Senator Kashim Shettima, has once again thrown the opposition parties off-balance. They (PDP and others) would have preferred our presidential candidate to settle for the less so as to make it easy for them to win election (God forbid), but the choice of the trusted and trustworthy Shettima must have disorganised their evil plans, we understand them in the APC.
“While we sympathise with the opposition parties, we appeal to Nigerians, who will eventually be the beneficiaries of good governance under Tinubu-Shettima presidency, to see beyond the sentiments of religion and tribe. Both Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Senator Kashim Shettima are not religious fundamentalists or ultra Muslims, their records in public offices are testimonies to rely on.
“As a two-term governor in Borno State, Shettima enjoyed the support of the Christian community throughout his tenure. In fact, the Borno chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) testified that ‘In the history of Borno State, there is no Governor that has been fair to the Christian Community as much as Governor Kashim Shettima.’
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