Fresh reports reaching desk of Africa Today News, New York has revealed that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will formally be unveiling its Vice Presidential candidate for the 2023 general elections, Senator Kashim Shettima, to the Nigerian public on Wednesday.
This announcement had been contained in a statement issued by Sulaiman Muhammad Argungu who is the National Organising Secretary of the party.
The event is billed to hold at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja by 11.00am.
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The statement said members of the National Executive Committee (NEC), Progressives Governors’ Forum, APC Caucus in the National Assembly, Federal Executive Council (FEC), Diplomatic Corps, presidential aspirants at the June 2022 Special National Convention, APC State Chairmen, APC State Secretaries and APC State Organising Secretaries, are expected to witness the unveiling.
Shettima would have been unveiled last week but the event was postponed due to the Osun Governorship election.
The APC Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu had recently picked Shettima as his running mate for 2023. The move had attracted criticism as he was accused of running under a Muslim-Muslim ticket for 2023 presidency.
In another report, Kashim Shettima had also reacted to the controversy generated by the announcement of a Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket of the ruling party ahead of forthcoming general elections.
Africa Today News, New York had also recalled that Shettima was recently announced as the vice-presidential candidate of the APC by the party’s flagbearer and former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu, who had won the party’s presidential primary early last month.
He went on to defend his emergence as the candidate for the second top job on Friday while addressing members of the APC Professional Forum who paid him a visit in Abuja.
‘They are accusing him (Tinubu) of an attempt to Islamise the country; has he started with Islamising his own family?’ the lawmaker queried.
Shettima, a former two-term governor of Borno State, is a Muslim from the north-east region and the lawmaker representing Borno Central senatorial district at the National Assembly in Abuja.