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An All Progressives Congress (APC) group under the auspices of North East APC Youth Stakeholders Forum, has declared war against the party’s vice presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima.

Briefing newsmen in Abuja on Thursday, the group warned that apart from the interim measure of withdrawing their support from him, they will unfold a more drastic action against him in the next few days.

Chairman of the group, Shaibu Baffa Tilde, who disclosed their position in his address during the briefing, claimed that Shettima’s actions have led to millions of party members leaving in droves.

“We are saddened to be in the news for what others will interpret as a negative reason this time, but we are also obligated by our love for our great party, the APC, to make this timely intervention before our party’s fortunes in the region sink.

“We do not need to emphasise that this is an injury time for the game because the general election is less than two months away, leaving no room for error, but instead attention must be focused on tightening all loose ends, which is not the case with our party in the northeast.

“It is with deep regret and concern that we report that the fortunes of our great party in the Northeast are on the verge of collapse due to the obstinate, careless, and exclusive leadership style of our vice presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima,” they hinted on his sins.

Speaking further, the group noted that: “Northeast APC Youth Forum has watched with tears as its many supporters continue to defect to the PDP. Unfortunately, the trend in the Northeast zone is worsening by the day, with Kashim seemingly turning a blind eye to these heinous developments in our party in the region.

“We the Youths in the Northeast have lost our Zonal Treasurer from his home state of Borno, Yusuf Shariff Banki, due to his failure to support youth in the region to launch massive mobilization. It is worth noting that Sheriff led over 500,000 youth to the PDP.

“As if that wasn’t enough, our Zonal Organizing Secretary, Murtala Gamji of Taraba, led over 200 youth to the NNPP, and our Zonal Women Leader, Amina Manga of Bauchi, led one million women to the PDP.

“Of the eight million youth votes we have already mobilized for Bola Ahmed Tinubu, our presidential candidate for the presidential polls, Kashim Shettime has already plundered over three million through his actions with the wave of defections from our party. This is simply unacceptable!

“In light of this, we urge our party’s vice presidential candidate to immediately reverse his steps and correct his error for the sake of the party, the region, and the teaming youth.

“It is on record that this group, then led by it’s current Acting Chairman, Shaibu Baffa Tilde, threw their support behind Shettima and committed massive resources, both human and financial, to ensure he emerged as the APC’s vice presidential candidate.

“We do not seek compensation from Shettima, but our resentment stems from his failure to recognize a formidable Youth force of the party that stood by him through thick and thin after realizing his ambition to become reality as vice presidential candidate from the northeast region.

“As a result, the Northeast APC Youth Forum wishes to withdraw its unequivocal support for Shettima. Our actions should not be misinterpreted, but rather judged by our affection for our dear party.

“While we intend to take our next steps regarding his candidacy in the coming days, we would like to express our unwavering support for our presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, and the APC. We will continue to work for the advancement and victory of our beloved party in the upcoming general elections,” they promised.

Kingsley34:
Our only challenge to emerging victorious remains the core north.....we just pray for block vote in ss and se region

amanda2013:
Not just arrogant but also selfish, wicked and very dangerous. He is too ambitious and has agreed to sacrifice Christians on the alter of ambition. But he will fail. He wants to give boko haram a very good reason to declare a full blown jihad in Nigeria. But God will never allow him.

SHINJA:
From the name and ur appearance you look healthy,I know you will vote for Obi...

Only poor wretched drug addicts like tinubu

Jagabanofafrica:
Yes oooo
I like him like dat

TINUBU is the next President
Yoruba lokan
Yoruba lokan
Yoruba lokan
Yoruba lokan

The spokesperson of the Atiku Abubakar campaign council, Kola Ologbondiyan, stated that the APC presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is too arrogant and that he would not win the election, pointing out that he stood up in front of 200 million Nigerians and said "Emilokan."

He revealed in an interview with Arise News that Tinubu is not someone who deserves power. He however stated that God would give power to the person who he wants, not by someone saying it's his turn.

According to him, "When God wants to give power, he doesn't look at your stature, he doesn't look at your face; if it's your turn, it is your turn." Who would the power go to? Emilokan? Somebody who stood up in a country of over 200 million people and said, "Emikokan, you'll give him power with all this arrogance?" You can't give that kind of person power. Nigerians will not even give him that, and that's the truth.

Donwilson88:
This is really sympathetic
We are living in a region where mediocres are greater than well reasoning people

As 2023 general elections draw closer, Nigerians in various parts of the country have mostly settled for Lab our presidential candidate Peter Obi as their preferred choice in a physical poll conducted in December 2022, with barely two months to D-day.

The result of polls conducted between the 1st and 4th of December by the media outfit BantuPage, showed that Labour Party’s Obi was preferred by most of the eligible voters in the Federal Capital Territory, Southeast, South-south and North-central geopolitical zones.

The overall poll revealed that 37% of the polled respondent spread in all the geo-graphical zones preferred Obi. While 15%, 14% and 4% preferred the APC, PDP and NNPP respectively, 17% of the respondents were still undecided, 9% do not intend to vote with 4% unwilling to disclose their preferred candidates.

In the direct physical poll conducted by the media team in the country, Nigerian electorates in the selected states revealed that the preference for their candidates were based on religion, competence and other reasons.

Analysis of the poll results by BantuPage revealed that most respondents representing 19% of the both male and female population within the three selected states of Kano, Katsina and Kaduna preferred NNPP’s Kwankwaso in the Northwest. Though 18%, 15% and 7% had PDP, APC and LP respectively as their second preference, a whopping 32% were still undecided.

The result was however different in Northeast as PDP’s presidential candidate Atiku polled more with 38% respondents choosing him as their preferred candidate while LP, APC and NNPP had 15%, 12% and 2% respectively with 27% eligible voters undecided.

Results from the South-south region, mostly in Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Delta and Edo states, LP’s presidential candidate Obi led the way with 66% respondents for voting intent. PDP and APC were both tied at 7% each, while 3 % preferred NNPP and 6% still undecided.

For North Central respondents, 45% intend to vote LP, while 14%, 13% and 3% had a preference for APC, PDP and NNPP respectively with 15% yet undecided.

Southwest respondents preferred the APC candidate with the ruling party amassing 34%, followed by LP and PDP with 23% and 17% respectively. Only 1% of polled respondent intended to vote for the NNPP candidate although 17% were still undecided. While the APC candidate may have won the entire Southwest region, the poll results showed that he actually came in second in Lagos state to LP, polling only 28% while LP had 31%. Further analysis revealed that this LP’s victory in Lagos was influenced by the fact that Lagos is a multi-ethnic city. A drill down on how Yorubas voted in Lagos revealed that Tinubu would have won Lagos with 47% and LP would have been a distant second at only 10%.

The LP also had the highest preference amongst respondents from the Southeast with 72% of voting intentions. The APC and PDP each scored 3% and 2% respectively of voting intent while the NNPP scored zero. Despite voter apathy and security challenges occasioned by the clamour for secession in the South East, there was a very high intent to vote with only 6% yet undecided.

Similarly, result of polls conducted in the Federal Capital Territory gave LP wide edge with 44% while APC, PDP and NNPP got 11%, 10% and 3% respectively. With 11% still undecided.

Areas polled in Federal capital territory were Garki Area 1, Asokoro, Wuse Zone 5, Gudu, Bwari Area Council, Gwagwalada Area Council Zuba, Gwagwalada Area Council Tunga Maje, Gwagwalada Area Council, University of Abuja, Gwagwalada Area Council Giri, Kuje Area Council Kuje Ibi, Kuje Area Council Kuje Market, Kuje Ako, Kuje Area Council Kuje Guduaba, Garki Area 2, Garki Area 10, Garki Area 3, Wuse 2 and Jabi.

Talking about the rationale behind the choice of candidates and voting intentions, the spokesperson for BantuPage in a statement made available Friday, said, “What’s also interesting here is that ethnicity and religion, which are two of Nigeria’s fault lines, had little impact on respondents’ choice of voting intention. Our data showed that of the 59% of our respondents who gave a reason for their voting intentions, only 2% said religion was their motivator, 3% for ethnicity, 1% for party affiliation, 11% for change, 13% for age, and a staggering 70% for capacity and trust.

“Again, we made sure our numbers per area were limited and spread across the cities/states so that our results would be as representative as possible of the demographic area.”

“These polling results from BantuPage poll is the first of three series expected to be conducted before the election to gauge the feelings of Nigerians especially to know if the results of the first poll will be replicated or whether voting intentions have changed or some of the undecided voters had settled for a particular candidate as election gets ever closer.

“Our first monthly poll has just concluded, and we are looking to publish these. One thing that is very different from our numbers is that we broke down our interviews in different categories apart from the usual a yes or no on whom the respondents are likely to vote for.

“We intend to run a once-a-month general polling on the above categories, i.e. December 2022 (just completed polls), January, and February just before the election.

“We selected three states from each geo-political zone for our polls, normally, not more than 10 respondents in each community or local government with the exemption of Lagos and Kano where the population numbers are quite high. Unlike other polls conducted, 95% of our respondents were recorded (all recordings are available), whilst 5% were voice recordings of polled individuals who didn’t wish to be captured on video recording. In our January polls, we will cover the remaining three states in each geopolitical zone that we did not poll during our December polls, whilst we intend to capture the entire country in one fell swoop in our penultimate polling in February.

“Our polls are the most comprehensive and detailed ever carried out in Nigeria. Our results are peer reviewed for rigour and robustness, and our sampling ensured that any chance of inadvertent bias was eliminated,” the poll coordinators added.

seguno2:
Very demonic, I tell you.
Imagine that ThiefNuibu saying calling Christians church rats who eat poisoned Holy Communion?

Is that not enough omen for wise Christians to vote against the Muslim/Muslim calamity

sapele914:
You cannot claim your papa is better than Tinubu educationally, materially or intellectually.

So please Peasant, Shut up, we know those at the bottom gossip the most.

sapele914:
Maybe you don’t know say train no dey reverse? the caravan has long left the station.

kimjongJezebel:
The Jimi Adebayo's family has now gotten all their PVCs, 5 in total. My two sisters are first time voters. All 5 PVCs are now for Balogun Omowale Peter Adebayo obi.

Our parents resisted and have always wanted to vote Emilokan but my two sisters did a good job to convinced them to change their minds. Not easy to change old peoples' minds about their beliefs but we did it. APC gave us a sick Emilokan who can't make a coherent speech instead of an intelligent man like Osinbajo. Even if Obi doesn't win, we'll be at peace that we try to change the system.

May God bless all Obidients!

sapele914:
If you aren’t an oblivious minded hypocrite, what is the difference between Datti-Baba Ahmad & haters and terrorists like Shettima, El-Rufai and Ganduje?

SHINJA:
My bro..I don stay north . I don see things.

SHINJA:
Hmmmm

Curse be upon any stupid Christian that will vote for tinubu..

It will never be well with you and your family...

God bless Southsouth and Southwest

Osibajo2023:
shut up

Osibajo2023:
I am a Christian, Tinubu in Lagos, never use religion to do his things, ambode & Sanwo olu are both christian

ganisucks:
You're right. He prefers to use ethnicity.

fredoooooo:
Every sensible Omoluabi will vote Sowore if we teuky want change in Nigeria.
Afterall sowore is never an APC or PDP member.
Achievements and track records Tinubu
A new person to lead and rule Sowore
Where exactly is Obis forte ? Lying I guess

Banbutton:
Best qualifed to lead Nigeria to doom, but least qualified to lead Nigeria to success.

Afe pls be specific with words.
A GCE ANINI can't rule the Great nation.

engrflames:
Tinubu should calm down, it's unpreseidential to be throwing tantrums. I am disappointed with his recent outbursts.

Felixamos:
Let it be known that I distance myself from your post.

By God's grace, my mum raised me better...

Ogbuefi2020:
This is real opinion poll, not projection. Obi has won this election. High percentage undecided Muslims will vote for Obi