Дата: 17-07-2022, 22:08
THE search for the running mate of All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Bola Tinubu intensified on June 14 as President Muhammadu Buhari and APC governors met over the party’s vice-presidential slot for the 2023 general election on the State House in Abuja. However, although the incumbent Northern APC governors played an important function in Tinubu’s emergence, there are strong indications that a former governor on the party’s platform is most more likely to turn into the operating mate. The assist of APC Northern governors played a serious position in Tinubu’s emergence because the party’s presidential candidate, and experiences later emerged that the previous Lagos State governor had promised the governors the VP slot. Shettima was very vocal in his help for Tinubu in the build-as much as the APC presidential primary, to the extent of launching private assaults on Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. Former Borno State governor Kashim Shettima is believed to be Tinubu’s preferred alternative as operating mate. The ICIR learnt that some major stakeholders in the APC want the North-East to produce the running mate to counter the benefits Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar is anticipated to have in the North. Among the governors, Zulum of Borno State within the North-East is being tipped as a attainable operating mate for the APC presidential candidate.