Sen Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has come under heavy fire, following his decision to announce Senator Kashim Shettima as his running mate in the 2023 election.
Tinubu made the announcement on Sunday, July 10, 2022, in Daura, Katsina State, where he visited President Buhari who is observing the Sallah holiday, to brief him on his pick.
Following the announcement of Shettima as VP pick, Nigerians reacted with anger and disappointment, criticizing Tinubu and the APC’s choice to float a Muslim-Muslim ticket in a country heavily divided along religious lines.
Here are some reactions gathered by The Quest Times:
@nigeriasbest It was Shettima alongside Lamido Sanusi who said that the Niger Delta receiving 13% was one of the causes of Boko-Haram…. If you elect divisive characters, volenti non fit injuria….
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@Thebardogbamola This same Shettima was governor when the Chibok girls were kidnapped. This is the governor that despite the warnings of @GEJonathan that no exams should take place, he still went ahead with the exams and #Chibokgirls got missing. This is the person @officialABAT wants as vice.
@RealOlaudah Bola Tinubu’s running mate Senator Kashim Shettima is the gentleman who spoke in that igbophobic recorded phone call prior to 2015 presidential elections with Senator Ibikunle Amosun, then governor of Ogun State. Remember him? He hates the Igbos even more than Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
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@firstladyship Tinubu picked Shettima, making the APC a Muslim Muslim ticket. We are not voting for ethnicity or religion. We are voting for MERIT. We are voting against Corruption, ASUU Strikes, Hunger & Poverty, National Grid Collapses, Mad Insecurity, Crazy Inflation, etc. AM I MAKING SENSE?
@ChigozieIAlex Now that Tinubu has picked Shettima as his running mate. I hope we can all see his insensitivity by going for a Muslim-Muslim ticket in a multi-religious country like Nigeria. Is he trying to tell us there’s no capable Christian from the north? Anyways, we’ll meet at the polls
@TheoAbuAgada Shettima it is. So, after all the twerking, Nasir El-rufai didn’t get it?
@fkeyamo Quintessential banker & economist, suave gentleman & politician, intellectually fertile, economically sound, intergenerationally mobile (he’s young, yet experienced), fiercely loyal, phenomenally complimentary to @officialABAT; HE Sen. Kashim Shettima is the perfect choice as VP
@ChNnadozie Tinubu has picked Kashim Shettima as his running mate. The public outcry against Muslim-Muslim ticket fell on deaf ears. APC must not be allowed to return back to power
@_Samcleave Days after Kassim Shettima got letters from Boko Haram terrorists regarding the abduction of Chibok girls, he concealed it and took no measures, not even a declaration of no school day just to play malicious fiscal and ethnicity politics against GEJ. Today, that same man is sharing another religious and ethnicity bigoted presidential ticket with Tinubu on the platform of a malicious political party, Nigerians should not allow themselves to be played into eternal polarization, reject APC with all you have in you.
@Ayaya_is_Ayaya Tinubu has not even won the election and he is already undermining the unity of Nigeria. A Muslim Muslim ticket is a slap on the millions of Christians in Nigeria. Shame on Shettima.