A former governor of Borno State, Senator Kashim Shettima, has disclosed that the time is ripe for the North to support the presidential ambition of the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Speaking on Sunday, Shettima, who was one of the three governors of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) that collapsed into the APC at the time of the merger with other political parties ahead of the 2015 general elections, pointed out that it is a payback time for Tinubu, who played a huge part in making the long-time ambition of President Muhammadu Buhari a reality, who defeated President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Africa Today News, New York reports that Buhari and Tinubu are believed to be the two most important men whose agreement to form the APC, in 2013, and subsequent collaboration led to the Buhari presidency which took off in 2015.
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Recall that the All Progressives Congress (APC) was formed following the merger of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), ANPP, a faction of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) and the New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP).
Shettima said Tinubu had supported President Buhari through thick and thin, and one good turn always deserves another.
He stated that before supporting Buhari, the former Lagos State governor shelved his ambition and supported two presidential aspirants from the North – former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and a former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu, at different times although he had all it took to also vie for the presidency.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK