Prof. Haruna Yerima, a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC), says President Bola Tinubu will win the 2027 presidential election if he adopts Vice President Kashim Shettima as his running mate.
Yerima stated this on Saturday in Abuja while reacting to a statement credited to the Northern Ethnic Nationality Forum, NENF.
NENF had urged Tinubu to drop Shettima and avoid repeating the Muslim-Muslim ticket.
The group also said that Tinubu must pick a Christian from the Plateau, Benue, and Taraba states to allay the fears of Islamisation agenda by his presidency.
According to the group, retaining the Muslim-Muslim ticket will give the opposition a ready campaign.
Yerima, however, described the claim as fallacy and unfounded.
“The claim that the APC may lose the 2027 presidential elections if President Bola Tinubu adopts Vice President Kashim Shettima as his running mate is insane and unfounded,” he said.
The former House of Representatives member added that the insinuation that Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi’s ticket would defeat that of Tinubu/Shettima is a jaundiced and amateur political permutation without any empirical backing.
“We dismiss this statement by one Dominic Alancha of a faceless organisation, Northern Ethnic Nationality Forum, who urged President Tinubu to drop Sen. Shettima and avoid repeating the Muslim-Muslim ticket,” he stated.
