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All Progressive Congress, APC, Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, confirmed former Borno Governor Kashim Shettima as his running mate on Sunday.

This came shortly after the running mate “place holder”, Alhaji Ibrahim Masari withdrew from the race.

Below are some things to know about the APC Vice Presidential candidate in the 2023 general election;

Kashim Shettima was born in Maiduguri, Borno on September 2, 1966 to the family of Sir Kashim Ibrahim.
He studied at the University of Maiduguri and earned a BSc in Agricultural Economics in 1989.
In the same year, he had his one-year compulsory membership of the NYSC at the defunct Nigerian Agricultural Cooperative Bank, Calabar, Cross River State in South-South, Nigeria, from 1989 to 1990.
Shettima was a two-time Governor of Borno and a close associate of Tinubu who has been a staunch supporter and campaigner for the APC national leader as the next President of Nigeria.
He popularised the ‘nice men like Osinbajo should be selling ice-cream’ mantra that became a campaign slogan during the buildup of the APC Presidential primaries.
He was elected Senator and he currently represents Borno Central senatorial district of Borno since 2019.
Shettima is happily married to Nana Shettima, and they have three children: two females and a male.

https://www.thequesttimes.com/shettima-things-to-know-about-tinubus-running-mate/

Two old men, I was hoping that Tinubu would choose someone younger

God1000:
Two old men, I was hoping that Tinubu would choose someone younger

Which useless young.
Any young man that's waiting to get political power before he could make changes is worse than these old men.
Check around the world and see the real young men that revolutionized how we live today. They don't need politics.
We can't be creating same kind of people. Let the youths work until they figure it out.

God1000:
Two old men, I was hoping that Tinubu would choose someone younger

even if he choose 18 years old boy and a Reverend Father as his VP you people will not vote for him so why're you guys crying up nd down diz should be a Win win for you guys....

By chosing to run a Muslim-Muslim ticket in a country like Nigeria and at a time such as now, the one clear message the APC is sending to the Christian Community in Nigeria is; DO YOUR WORST! YOU DON'T COUNT!

Beyond this insult, the most imb£cilic set of idjiots are the people who, in a bid to protect their own intestinal interest, argue that a Muslim-Muslim ticket in a highly volatile multi-religious Nigeria, , doesn't matter as long as they are competent (As if there are no competent Christians in the North). If it doesn't matter, why did some people give that as a condition for supporting Tinubu who himself is a Muslim? This is the fuulish justification we were given when Buhari was filling all sensitive positions with only people from a particular region and religion. Today, how far?

And because for some of our Daddy G.O and Men of God, the bl00d of money appears ticker than the bl00d of Christ, this insult might be left unresponded to. Some of them may even find a way to justify this even if it means standing the Bible on its head like Pastor Poju did when he turned the definition of faith upside down in a desperate bid to disguise his support for Tinubu. Pa Adeboye will deliberately play the 'see no evil and hear no evil' card. Bakare will most definitely find a way to defend this as a way of paying back his debt to Tinubu. No surprise in his own case.

But I trust the irrepressible Bishops David Oyedepo and David Ibiyeomie. Those two have never been found wanting when it comes to defending the interests of their flock.

As for CAN, I want to believe they are preparing a ROBUST counter measure beyond mere rhetorics.