Buhari will endorse Tinubu ahead of primary – Shettima

Kashim Shettima, a former governor of Borno State, has predicted the presidential aspirant to be endorsed by President Muhammadu Buhari for 2023 presidency.

Shettima said that the president will endorse the former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, if at all he (Buhari) wants to choose a preferred candidate.

Shettima made this revelation while speaking on TVC on Friday.

He said, it will be “catastrophic” for the party if Tinubu is not chosen as the party’s flagbearer.

“We are in a democratic situation but I’m afraid it might be catastrophic for the party.

“I’m not a prophet of doom; I’m an internal optimist. We have done our own bidding and by God’s grace, our candidate will emerge as the presidential flagbearer of the APC in the next 72 hours,” Shettima said.

Shettima added: “People are underrating the president a great deal and they are equally underrating the depth of his friendship with Tinubu. They have come a long way.

“The President Buhari I know sufficiently, if at all the president is going to endorse anyone, that person is going to be Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Forget about all the charlatans and distractions and political contractors.”

Recall that the Informant247 had reported that the presidential screening committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has disqualified 10 out of 23 aspirants; that declared intentions to become president in 2023.

While giving report of the screening exercise to the national chairman of APC, Abdullahi Adamu, Oyegun said: “I won’t want to read the names, I’d leave that to you, but we brought the number down to 13.

“We could have cut it a little shorter but we wanted the younger elements to surface.”