{"id":167181,"date":"2025-06-17T07:56:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T06:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/why-we-didnt-endorse-shettima-with-tinubu-apc-clarifies"},"modified":"2025-06-17T09:01:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T08:01:50","slug":"why-we-didnt-endorse-shettima-with-tinubu-apc-clarifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/why-we-didnt-endorse-shettima-with-tinubu-apc-clarifies","title":{"rendered":"Why we didn\u2019t endorse Shettima with Tinubu \u2014 APC clarifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The National Vice Chairman (North East) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mustapha Salihu, has explained why Vice President Kashim Shettima was not included in the recent endorsement of President Bola Tinubu for a second term.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today on Monday, Salihu said including Shettima in the endorsement would have meant that Tinubu had already chosen his running mate for the 2027 election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would have been inappropriate to endorse the Vice President along with the President because it would pre-assume that he is the running mate,\u201d Salihu said.<\/p>\n<p>The omission of Shettima happened during a North-East APC stakeholders meeting held in Gombe on Sunday, where the region endorsed President Tinubu for re-election but left out the Vice President.<\/p>\n<p>The omission of Vice President Kashim Shettima also comes amid growing speculation about his political future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The National Vice Chairman (North East) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mustapha Salihu, has explained why Vice President Kashim Shettima was not included in the recent endorsement of President Bola Tinubu for a second term. Speaking on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today on Monday, Salihu said including Shettima in the endorsement would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":167180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[13554,17836,254,9846,1837,945],"class_list":["post-167181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-13554","tag-endorsement","tag-nigeria","tag-salihu","tag-shettima","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why we didn\u2019t endorse Shettima with Tinubu \u2014 APC clarifies - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The National Vice Chairman (North East) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mustapha Salihu, has explained why Vice ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/why-we-didnt-endorse-shettima-with-tinubu-apc-clarifies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why we didn\u2019t endorse Shettima with Tinubu \u2014 APC clarifies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The National Vice Chairman (North East) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mustapha Salihu, has explained why Vice ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/why-we-didnt-endorse-shettima-with-tinubu-apc-clarifies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-17T06:56:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-17T08:01:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1750134784.297584.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"796\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/why-we-didnt-endorse-shettima-with-tinubu-apc-clarifies#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/why-we-didnt-endorse-shettima-with-tinubu-apc-clarifies\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Why we didn\u2019t endorse Shettima with Tinubu \u2014 APC clarifies\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-17T06:56:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-17T08:01:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/why-we-didnt-endorse-shettima-with-tinubu-apc-clarifies\"},\"wordCount\":160,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/why-we-didnt-endorse-shettima-with-tinubu-apc-clarifies#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1750134784.297584.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"2027\",\"endorsement\",\"Nigeria\",\"Salihu\",\"Shettima\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/why-we-didnt-endorse-shettima-with-tinubu-apc-clarifies#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/why-we-didnt-endorse-shettima-with-tinubu-apc-clarifies\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/why-we-didnt-endorse-shettima-with-tinubu-apc-clarifies\",\"name\":\"Why we didn\u2019t endorse Shettima with Tinubu \u2014 APC clarifies - 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