The Tinubu Campaign Organisation (TCO) has said that choosing Senator Kashim Shettima as running mate for the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is for the good of the country.
The campaign team noted the heated debate generated by the crucial decision.
“The TCO restates that religion or ethnicity was far from the calculations of the All Progressives Congress and its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in picking his running mate,” it said.
The group explained that Tinubu picked a tested politician and technocrat from the minority Kanuri ethnic group from the Northeast, adding that the choice was not based on religion.
According to TCO, “the factors at play were issues germane to confronting the multi-dimensional crisis our nation faces today: insecurity, economic problems, such as the unemployment crisis facing our youths.”
The statement added: “Our candidate canvassed on his track record in Lagos to win the APC primary last June. As governor between 1999 and 2007, he was able to transform a decadent state into the fourth biggest economy in Africa. He believes that his feat in Lagos can be replicated all over Nigeria.
“To assist him in realizing this vision, he picked Kashim Shettima, who also established a track record of development in Borno State while he was governor for eight years, despite the Boko Haram crisis. Surely, only the deep know how to call onto the deep.
“Nigerians have a lot to gain in having the two tested leaders at the helm of affairs.
