Majority of Northern Governors Not Supporting Tinubu- Shettima Alleges
President of the Arewa Youths Consultative Forum, Yerima Shettima, has disclosed that majority of the 19 Northern governors are not Supporting the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Shettima in an interview on Friday claimed that he has an evidence on the activities of some of the governors romancing the PDP and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
“I have evidence on the activities of APC governors who are romancing the PDP and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. Very soon, I will expose them.”
In an exclusive interview, Shettima said: “In the build-up to the 2015 general election, we saw how Bola Ahmed Tinubu influenced the South-West governors and their stakeholders to support President Buhari.
“In the rundown to the election, Tinubu gave them 100 percent support. We could see how he, against all olds, made sacrifices for them (governors) and other officeholders to emerge as candidates and subsequently win elections in their respective states. But the way things are going now, they are not giving him the same support.
“Two weeks ago, there was this gathering in Lagos, organised by Northerners residing in Lagos and other South-West states to endorse Tinubu, and I was there as a special guest of honour..
“At the gathering, I came to learn that no kobo was contributed by any governor from the North. Rather, the event was singlehandedly sponsored by the Northern- ers and the traditional rulers residing in the South-West to make the event a success.
“Only the Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, demonstrated love for Tinubu by attending the event. Even his Director General, the governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, was not there. The question I asked was: why are we not seeing the commitment of these governors?
“Even the president, we have only seen him in a few places. He is not making his presence felt in the cam- paigns. What is going wrong? If they are not committed, why did they allow him (Tinubu) to get the ticket in the first place? I think something is fishy.
“My candid advice to Tinubu is that he should not rely on the APC governors as most of them have failed their people. Some of them cannot go back and talk to the people on the direction to follow.
“Only a few of them are with him. If the Southern gover- nors are not with him, we do not expect the Northern governors not to be with him.
“You know, Northerners, by our culture and standards, we are meant to be honest and sincere. If we say this is where we want to belong, we stay there, no matter what. But today, unfortunately, we don’t keep to our word.”
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