Vice-President Kashim Shettima on Friday met with President Bola Tinubu at the State House in Abuja after he was retained as the All Progressives Congress (APC) vice-presidential candidate for the 2027 election.
The meeting took place shortly after the APC formally
unveiled the Tinubu-Shettima ticket at a stakeholders’ meeting in Abuja.
Shettima visited the president to express appreciation for
retaining him as his running mate for the 2027 presidential election.
Shettima’s retention ended weeks of speculation over whether
the vice-president would remain on the APC ticket for the next general
election.
The party’s decision to retain the Tinubu-Shettima ticket
means it will head into the 2027 election with the same presidential team that
secured victory in the 2023 poll.
Earlier on Friday, Sunday Dare, special adviser to the
president on public communications and orientation, announced that Tinubu had
submitted his presidential nomination form to the APC national working
committee (NWC).
In a post on his X handle, Dare said Tinubu emerged as the
party’s sole presidential candidate for the 2027 election.
“President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has submitted his nomination
form to the APC NWC as our sole presidential candidate for 2027. He has retained Vice President Kashim
Shettima as his running mate,” Dare wrote.
Tinubu and Shettima’s nomination forms were presented to
Nentawe Yilwatda, APC national chairman, by Ibrahim Masari, the president’s
special adviser on political and other matters, at the Continental Hotel in
Abuja.
The ceremony was attended by Hope Uzodimma, governor of Imo
and chairman of the Progressive Governors’ Forum, APC governors, members of the
party’s national working committee (NWC), the APC caucus in the national
assembly, members of the federal executive council (FEC), and other party
leaders and stakeholders.
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