16 June, 2025
Drama ensued at the All Progressives Congress (APC) stakeholders meeting in the North- East, on Sunday, after Comrade Mustapha Salihu, National Vice Chairman of the ruling party in the North-East, failed to mention the name of Vice-President Kashim Shettima while endorsing President Bola Tinubu reelection in 2027.
The Star packed meeting, which was held in Gombe State, was attended by virtually all ministers, lawmakers, and governors of the party from the northeast region, as well as the National chairman of the party Abdullahi Ganduje who led some key players to the meeting
While speaking, Salihu endorsed Tinubu to emerge as an unopposed candidate of the APC but was silent about Shettima which drew insults from delegates with some threatening to attack him physically, but he had to be escorted out of the meeting by security operatives.
In a bid to restore calmness and normalcy, the Deputy National Chairman of the party, Bukar Dalori, endorsed both Tinubu and Shettima for a second term, but the matter got worse when Ganduje also endorsed Tinubu alone without Shettima, forcing the meeting to end abruptly
