2023 will be payback time for Tinubu, says Shettima

Vice Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Kashim Shettima, expressed confidence that his party’s presidential candidate, Tinubu would build a new Nigeria.

The former Borno state governor stated this at the inauguration of campaign logo and vehicles of the “APC Northern Door-to-Door for Tinubu/Shettima 2023’’ by the Northern APC Speakers Forum in Abuja on Saturday

Shettima believed that the 2023 presidential election would be a payback time for Tinubu who had sacrificed so much for the democracy of Nigeria but was humiliated politically.

“Who among the presidential candidates today has greater skill sets, the intellect and the capacity to move this nation forward other than Asiwaju Bola Tinubu?” He asked.

He said that Tinubu had also contributed to economic and human development across the country through the demonstration of his capacity at different levels.

“We are on the threshold of making history. The global economy is tinkering towards recession; the world has moved from the agricultural age to the industrial age.’’ he noted.

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“We have moved from mere industrial age to knowledge-driven industrial age,’’ he noted.

Earlier in his remark, Bola Tinubu, on Saturday said his party would not engage PDP in war of words because they are smarter than them, noting that his team has the foresight to identify Nigeria’s problems and solve them headlong.

“We are the party of progressive ideas. We want good education for our children, good development for Nigeria, prosperity for this country and for agriculture and agro-allied projects to be embarked upon.

“We have the confidence; we have what it takes. We have the courage. We have the determination. We have the perseverance,’’ he said.

“We shall not be hauling abuses at rival political parties. We are smarter. We are brilliant. We are courageous. We are not like them. They spent 16 years and forgot that railway infrastructure does haulage goods and humans across Nigeria,’’ he noted.

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The Chairman, Northern APC Speakers Forum and Speaker of Kaduna State House of Assembly, Yusuf Zailani, in his remark said members were prepared to work for an overwhelming victory for Tinubu.

“We’re not going to collect a penny from the presidential campaign council. We are not going to collect money from any governor. We are going to join hands together and sponsor ourselves to do this project,’’ Zailani assured.

Secretary of the Forum and Speaker of Kogi State House of Assembly, Prince Matthew Kolawole, said the APC was lucky to have a joint ticket of Tinubu and Shettima for the 2023 presidential election.

He described the APC Northern Speakers Door-to-Door Campaign for Tinubu/Shettima as an initiative that would ensure massive grassroots mobilisation for an overwhelming victory for APC at the 2023 general election.