Shettima: APC governors meet with Buhari, support Tinubu’s Muslim-Muslim Ticket

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On Monday, nine APC governors visited President Buhari’s private residence in Daura to felicitate with him over sallah. During the visit, they had a one-hour closed-door meeting with him. 

After the meeting, they declared their support for Tinubu’s choice of Senator Shettima as running mate. 

According to the governors, the Tinubu-Shettima combination is a sure victory recipe for the party in the 2023 presidential election.

Abubakar Bagudu, the Chairman of the APC governors forum, said to pressmen after the closed-door meeting: 

We were pleasantly surprised when Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu announced in Daura on Sunday that Senator Kashim Ibrahim Shettima was the Vice Presidential candidate.

We were happy that it is no less a person than Senator Shettima who was announced the Vice Presidential candidate. No doubt, Senator Shettima would complement the good qualities of Asiwaju Tinubu. We are very very happy at the choice. The two will complement each other and will surely consolidate on the achievements of the President in the past seven years .

 

Hope Uzodimma, Imo State Governor, also voiced his thoughts that Shettima’s choice as the vice-presidential candidate was a decision made by the generality of the All Progressive Governors. He also said that all governors would put all machinery to work to secure victory for the APC in the 2023 elections.

Uzodimma said: 

The choice of Senator Shettima as the vice presidential candidate is a collective decision. We shall work hard to ensure victory in all our states.

 

Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau also declared that the choice of the running mate was the presidential flagbearer’s prerogative, and the APC governors’ job was to ensure victory in the election.

In his words: 

A presidential candidate has the prerogative of picking his Vice. But ours is to ensure the party’s victory in the presidential election.

The nine governors that visited and had the closed-door meeting with the President include Abubakar Bagudu (Kebbi); Abubakar Bello (Niger); Abdullahi Ganduje (Kano); Abdullahi Sule (Nasarawa); Aminu Masari (Katsina); Hope Uzodimma (Imo); Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti); Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna) and Simon Lalong (Plateau).

The Forum’s Chairman, Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi State, led the group. Apart from El-Rufai, they all travelled by road from Katsina, where Governor Masari led them as chief host.

They drove into Mr. President’s private residence a few minutes after 1 pm before the meeting kicked off. El-Rufai later joined them at the meeting.

The almost one-hour-long meeting ended with lunch with the President, and he saw them off at about 3:05 pm after an exchange of pleasantries.

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