Shettima has said that the North has refused to support him because he’s a Kanuri.
The vice presidential candidate for the APC claimed that despite not being Hausa or Fulani, Atiku Abubakar of the PDP has not done more for the north than him.
Kashim Shettima, the All Progressives Congress (APC) vice presidential candidate, claims that Northerners were hesitant to endorse him due to his Kanuri ancestry.
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“People are saying that I’m not Hausa. We have had people from the north who are not Hausa and they benefitted the north. Umar Musa Yar’adua, Buhari and others are examples.
“I’m not Hausa, but I am Fulani-blood related. I’m a Kanuri also, and I have benefit the north than the other,” the APC vice presidential candidate added.
During a visit to the Emir of Daura in Katsina, the running mate to Bola Tinubu said that northerners in states with predominant Hausa and Fulani people were refusing to back him.
Speaking in Hausa and in reference to Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Shettima said, “Ours is ours, but our man who does not benefit us cannot be considered as our own.”
He, therefore, challenged the audience to show him what Mr Abubakar did for the region during his eight years as vice president that warrants their vote.
Mr Shettima furthered challenged the audience to mention eight successful people that Mr Abubakar had mentored through his political career.
Nothing surprising.What’s shocking is for the Yoruba in TINUBU Bola not to have envisaged it.When it comes to political gyrating,the FULANI knows how to handle the Yoruba.They believe the Yorubas,are so disunited among themselves,in false conception that they are too educated than any others.But their in build greed and unnecessary in fighting,leading to non cohesion,is the bane of the ‘YARIBA’ tribe.Nurtured,structured by the Fulani in better understanding of the ‘YARIBA’ tribe.YORUBA must wake,to avoid greedy self destruction IJN.