Shettima: Tinubu made Buhari president, 2023 North’s payback time

The vice-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Kashim Shettima, says the 2023 election is payback time by the North to his principal, Bola Tinubu, for his past support to the region.

Shettima said this when he visited the Hausa community in Alaba-Rago, in Iba Local Council Development Area (LCDA) in Lagos State on Wednesday.

Shettima, who urged the people to vote for Tinubu, said the APC presidential candidate made President Muhamadu Buhari President in 2015 by giving him bloc votes from the South-West and repeated the feat in 2019.

He stated that Tinubu provided the platform for the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, to contest presidential election when the former Vice President was chased out of PDP, adding that Tinubu did the same thing for Nuhu Ribadu.

“We are people of honour, we should honour our pledge and promise. This is payback time for the north to support Tinubu,” the former governor of Borno State said.

Also speaking, Kano State Governor, Abdullah Ganduje, said as far as the North was concerned, “the issue of Tinubu is concluded”.

”Kano State wants votes from you for Tinubu. You have to promise us you will surpass Kano in your votes for Tinubu,” Ganduje said.

He added that Tinubu appointed non-Yoruba indigenes into government when he was governor, describing him as “a real nationalist”.

On his part, Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, urged the Hausa community “not to be deceived” and to vote for APC in the 2023 general election.

Sanwo-Olu said the meeting with the community was part of the party’s political discussions with non-indigene groups residing in Lagos State.

The governor, however, thanked the Hausa community for supporting the efforts of the Lagos State Government, saying the government scaled up infrastructure and amenities in the LCDA.

He also thanked them for maintaining peace while co-existing with other residents of the state.

Governor Sanwo-Olu stated that his administration would complete the Lagos-Badagry highway soon, saying the stretch toward Okokomaiko, the final stage, would be completed by the end of 2022.

Sanwo-Olu said the General Hospital currently being built in Iba would be completed in the not-too-distant future, adding that the government would move inside Ojo and take up the Kemberi-Afromedia Road.

The Star