The Yobe State All Progressives Congress (APC) Elders have vowed to support the vice presidential candidate of the party, Senator Kashim Shetima, in the 2023 elections.
“We are going to embark on massive mobilisation for the party, the presidential candidate and his running mate and we are sure of victory in the general elections, God willing,” the elders said.
The APC elders, who spoke through their leader, Sidi Yakubu Karasuwa, said “the choice of Senator Shettima is indeed a round peg in a round hole.”
He said Shettima’s nomination was a boost for the aspiration of the Northeastern part of the country.
Mr Karasuwa said, “More so, Shettima is a core party loyalist, political strategist and consummate politician with a deep interest in the unity and development of the country”.
The APC elders also accused some Northeast leaders of fanning the embers of disunity in the region and the country.
He said, “The position of the so-called leaders was unfortunate, given their self-assumed pedigree as elder statesmen in the Northeast.”
Mr Karasuwa said the group’s false allegation of linking Shettima to Boko Haram is dangerously reckless.
He said Shettima was at the forefront fighting the insurgents for eight years as Borno governor.
Earlier, elders under the umbrella of the Coalition of North East Elders for Peace and Development had vowed to work against the APC for fielding a Muslim-Muslim ticket for the 2023 presidential election.
