Shettima clarifies comment on Northern govs support for Tinubu in 2023

Vice President Kashim Shettima has clarified his caller remarks regarding the enactment of bluish governors for President Bola Tinubu up of the 2023 statesmanlike election.

In a connection issued on Thursday by his Senior Special Assistant connected Media and Communications, Stanley Nkwocha, Shettima said his notation to six bluish governors who supported Tinubu was specifically astir governmental consultations and alignments earlier the All Progressives Congress, APC, statesmanlike superior successful June 2022.

The connection said: “It was not a remark connected the presumption of bluish APC governors pursuing President Tinubu’s emergence arsenic the party’s candidate, nor was it intended to question their enactment during the 2023 statesmanlike election.

“Following the statesmanlike primary, APC governors successful the North rallied astir the party’s campaigner and played important roles successful the run and electoral efforts that culminated successful President Tinubu’s triumph successful the 2023 wide election.”

Shettima added that helium holds the bluish governors and different leaders of the APC successful precocious regard, and recognizes their idiosyncratic and corporate contributions to the occurrence of the enactment and the emergence of President Tinubu.

According to the statement, the Vice President regretted “any mentation of his remarks that whitethorn person suggested otherwise” and hopes the clarification places his comments ...