The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu has officially unveiled Kashim Shettima as his running mate in the 2023 presidential election.
The unveiling ceremony took place on Wednesday at Shehu Musa Yar’ Adua Centre in Abuja
Shettima, a serving senator and former tw0-term governor of Borno State was announced as vice presidential candidate after Ibrahim Masari stepped down as the “placeholder” running mate of Tinubu
The announcement of Shettima as vice presidential candidate has elicited a widespread criticisms because both men are Muslims
But defending his action, Tinubu said what mattered most was “competence in governance”
“To forge ahead as a nation toward development and prosperity, we must break free of old binds. We must recalibrate our political calculations to where competence and fairness matter more than reductive demographics,” he had said.
