2023 Presidency: Shettima Gives 1 Strong Reason Why North Should Vote for Tinubu, Ignore Atiku

2023 Presidency: Shettima Gives 1 Strong Reason Why North Should Vote for Tinubu, Ignore Atiku

  • The presidential campaign team of the ruling All Progressives Congress made a stop at Lagos state on Wednesday
  • This is as the vice presidential candidate during the Lagos rally, urged Nigerians to vote for Bola Tinubu while noting its payback time
  • Looking at the giant strides of the former governor of Lagos state, APC leaders and stakeholders during the campaign maintained that Tinubu will replicate such achievements in the polity if voted into power in 2023

The vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Kashim Shettima, has said the 2023 election is payback time by the north to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his past support to the region.

Shettima said this when he visited the Hausa community in Alaba-Rago, in Iba Local Council Development Area (LCDA), on Wednesday, November 2nd, in Lagos.

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Sen Kashim Shettima on Wednesday, in Lagos, at the Popular Alaba Rago Market. Photo credit: @BashirAhmaad
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According to a report by The Nation, he urged them to vote for the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Shettima was accompanied by Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, Gov. Abdullah Ganduje of Kano State, Lagos APC Chairman, Cornelius Ojelabi and all Arewa leaders in Lagos.

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He said that Tinubu made President Muhammadu Buhari President in 2015 by giving him bloc votes from the southwest, a feat he repeated in 2019.

Tinubu should be honored with the 2023 presidency, Shettima insist

Shettima further said that Tinubu provided the platform for Atiku to contest the presidential election when Atiku was chased out of PDP, same thing he did for Nuhu Ribadu.

”We are people of honour, we should honour our pledge and promise. This is payback time for the north to support Tinubu,” Shettima said.

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The national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Felix Morka, on Wednesday, November 2nd, disclosed that aspirants who are yet to recover from the loss at the presidential primary have a right to air their grievances.

This is even as he reassured that the leadership of APC is working hard to reunite all aggrieved members and chieftains of the party ahead of the 2023 election.

Morka made the statement when he appeared on ‘Talk Point’, a popular political programme on Lagos Television on Wednesday afternoon.

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has maintained that the fear of the party is responsible for the signing of Executive Order 21 by Governor Nyesom Wike.

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Darlington Nwauju, the Rivers APC publicity secretary made this disclosure through a statement.

He noted that the popularity of the party is the reason why many political parties are filing different suits against the APC to stop the party from participating in the 2023 general elections.

Source: Legit.ng

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