Only six Northern governors supported Tinubu in 2023 — Shettima
Vice President Kashim Shettima has claimed that only six out of the 19 northern governors supported President Bola Tinubu ahead of the 2023 election.
Shettima revealed this on Wednesday at the palace of the Emir of Ilorin, Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari.
He was speaking during the turbaning of Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, as the Sadauna of Ilorin Emirate.
While commending Tinubu’s policies since assuming office, the Vice President urged Nigerian politicians to stop treating politics as a “game of death” and to embrace reconciliation after every political contest.
Speaking on the state of the economy Tinubu inherited, Shettima said the administration met less than $3.9 billion in the national reserve, describing the economy at the time as being on the verge of collapse.
He said Tinubu nonetheless declined to blame his predecessor and instead chose to “inherit” the challenges left behind.
The Vice President further claimed that several obstacles were placed in Tinubu’s path as he sought the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential ticket, even from within his own party’s ranks in the north.
He added that only Governor Sani Bello of Niger State and AbdulRahman AbdulRazak of Kwara State supported Tinubu in 2023.
“We have 19 states in the north, apart from Abubakar Sani Bello seated here, and Malam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq. To avoid controversy, I will stop naming the names of the other governors. But the governors that were supporting Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the north were not more than six,” Shettima said.
