The claim that the All Progressives Congress (APC) may lose the 2027 presidential elections if President Bola Tinubu adopts Vice President Kashim Shettima as his running mate is insane and unfounded, Professor Haruna Yerima has said.
Professor Yerima, an APC chieftain and former House of Representatives member, said insinuation that Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi’s ticket would defeat that of Tinubu/Shettima is a jaundiced and amateur political permutation without any empirical backing.
The don spoke on Thursday in Abuja, while reacting to a statement credited to a faceless organisation, Northern Ethnic Nationality Forum, promoted by one Dominic Alancha, urging President Tinubu to drop Senator Shettima and avoid repeating the Muslim-Muslim ticket.
The group said Mr Tinubu must pick a Christian from the Plateau, Benue, and Taraba states to allay the fears of Islamisation agenda by Tinubu’s presidency. Mr Alancha said retaining the Muslim-Muslim ticket would give the opposition a ready campaign.
However, Professor Yerima said the group got “all its facts wrong because the issue of the Islamisation agenda has been disputed by the Tinubu’s presidency through its dynamic and policy of ….READ FULL ARTICLE>>