The vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Kashim Shettima has said that his principal and the presidential candidate of the party, Bola Tinubu was the brain behind the transformation of Lagos State.
Shettima made this revelation at the Lagos State banquet for President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday.
According to Shettima: “When Asiwaju became the governor of Lagos, you and I know that the fear of Lagos for the average northerner was the beginning of wisdom.”
“Lagos was a super slum but because of the quality of this man’s ideas, Lagos is now the third-largest economy in Africa. From N600m, Lagos government is now generating N61b every month as the internally generated revenue, and Lagos is now projected to be the third-largest economy by the end of the decade.”
He said Tinubu can make use of his wealth of experience to grow the standards of the people and therefore advised the people to queue behind him.
“I will urge you all to vote for the one that would sustain the legacies of President Muhammadu Buhari; for someone who has the integrity, the character, and the skillsets to catapult this nation to a higher pedestal,” Shettima added.
“Those of us from the north owe him a debt of gratitude for supporting our leader President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 and 2019 general elections,” he added.
While speaking on rumours on Tinubu’s health and age, he said: “We are not preparing for the Olympics but an institution that thrives on the superiority of ideas and established track records.”
