{"id":917416,"date":"2022-01-18T17:52:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T17:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/18\/we-owe-him-kashim-shettima-backs-tinubus-presidential-bid\/"},"modified":"2022-01-18T17:52:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T17:52:01","slug":"we-owe-him-kashim-shettima-backs-tinubus-presidential-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/18\/we-owe-him-kashim-shettima-backs-tinubus-presidential-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We Owe Him\u2019 \u2014 Kashim Shettima Backs Tinubu\u2019s Presidential Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-560246\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Borno-Governor-Kashim-Shettima.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"387\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Kashim Shettima, the former governor of Borno state, has endorsed Bola Tinubu, the former governor of Lagos state, for president.<\/p>\n<p>Shettima said the former Lagos governor has sacrificed for the country and that citizens owe him a debt of appreciation at a Tinubu support group press conference in Abuja on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>While other politicians flocked to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Tinubu took the \u201crisk of building a political alternative to the ruling party,\u201d according to the senator for Borno central.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-content_inline  tdi_2_aa6 td_block_template_1\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-all-devices\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GiftCards-300x250-1.jpg\" alt=\"Gift Cards\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0It\u2019ll Be Unfair Not To Zone 2023 Presidency To South East \u2013 Anyim<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAsiwaju\u2019s choices and endorsements of northerners as presidential candidates while others were masterminding ethno-regional solidarity and fueling socio-cultural affinities readily affirm his pan-Nigerian profile,\u201d Shettima said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere others see divisions to exploit, he sees collaborations. And it\u2019s this patience that has brought us together today, to remember the examples he\u2019s set and the debt we owe him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAsiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu should be given the choice of first refusal. More than any other person, he has sacrificed more for this democracy, for the APC.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kashim Shettima, the former governor of Borno state, has endorsed Bola Tinubu, the former governor of Lagos state, for president. Shettima said the former Lagos governor has sacrificed for the country and that citizens owe him a debt of appreciation at a Tinubu support group press conference in Abuja on Monday. While other politicians flocked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917416","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=917416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}