The vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Kashim Shettima as urged Northerners to reject the Peoples Democratic Party flag bearer, Atiku Abubakar for opposing Sharia rule across the region.
Shettima made the call while addressing party faithfuls at an APC local government conference in Abuja on Friday (February 10).
Peoples Gazette quotes the former Governor of Borno State as urging the northern voters to reject Abubakar at the February 25 polls because he fought against the Islamic legal system in the North.
“This person you call your own says you should not call him ‘Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, but rather Atiku Abubakar’,” Mr Shettima told his audience in the Hausa language. “Your person says he is the only person that fights against Sharia in the north. Is that your person?”
The APC vice presidential candidate’s remarks is his latest attempt to whip up ethno-religious rhetoric against the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate.
Shettima, at Emir Palace in Daura, Katsina, publicly challenged Abubakar to come out and mention eight people he has mentored in the North; or the capital projects he executed in the North while he served as Nigeria’s vice president between 1999 to 2007.
Shettima told his audience that Abubakar’s presidency would not serve the North’s ethno-religious interests.
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