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<\/div>\nKashim Shettima, former Borno governor, has expressed that his becoming the All Progressives Congress (APC) vice-presidential candidate shows that Nigerians are ready to choose competence over \u201cprimordial sentiments\u201d.<\/p>\n
Shettima stated this on Wednesday during his unveiling as the running mate of Bola Tinubu, APC presidential candidate.<\/p>\n
The event held on Wednesday at the Shehu Musa Yar\u2019Adua centre in Abuja.<\/p>\n
Tinubu, a Muslim from the south-west, had, on July 10, announced Shettima, a Muslim from the north-east, as his running mate.<\/p>\n
The Muslim-Muslim ticket had elicited criticism from some Nigerians who described it as an \u201cinjustice\u201d to the Christian community.<\/p>\n
However, Shettima said his becoming the APC vice-presidential candidate is based on democratic values.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe goodwill messages that have poured in, since the announcement of my selection as running mate to the high-performing Jagaban Borgu, easily underscore the depth of hope that our people are investing in the ticket,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Also Read: True Leadership Not Grounded In Religion Or Sentiment, Says Tinubu<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAnd I do not doubt that the amplitude of this love across the country, from Abia through to Zamfara, is an assurance that Nigerians are again prepared to choose the competence of their unifying representatives, over any expression of primordial sentiments.<\/p>\n \u201cMy emergence as the running mate of the inimitable Jagaban Borgu is based on the party\u2019s very forthright assessment of the threats ahead, and I\u2019m most honoured by the consensus of the distinguished stakeholders of our party to trust me with representing the nation\u2019s interests, under the leadership of the very sage, the youths all over our country, fondly refer to as \u2018city boy\u2019, in honour of his cosmopolitan profile.<\/p>\n \u201cOur public-spirited progressive governors have also demonstrated why they are the backbone of the party. There can\u2019t be enough words to quantify their sacrifices. We acknowledge the fact that they are responsible for this spectacular structure that offers us a palpable electoral advantage over our opponents.<\/p>\n \u201cWhatever supremacy we attribute to the APC is owed to the commitment of our progressive governors.<\/p>\n \u201cLike most of us, they submitted to the supreme interests of the party to guarantee our success in the forthcoming elections, and the immensity of these sacrifices calibrates their wisdom and sensitivity, to the myriad of opponents we are going to face in 2023.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m here today, because of their wisdom, and I\u2019m therefore grateful for their perception of the task ahead, as one that can only be executed through meticulous collaboration, across the board.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shettima Kashim Shettima, former Borno governor, has expressed that his becoming the All Progressives Congress (APC) vice-presidential candidate shows that Nigerians are ready to choose competence over \u201cprimordial sentiments\u201d. Shettima stated this on Wednesday during his unveiling as the running mate of Bola Tinubu, APC presidential candidate. The event held on Wednesday at the Shehu […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1134935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}