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The Director-General of the Tinubu Campaign Organisation, TCO, Kashim Shettima, has apologised to the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan over comments made during an interview.
Shettima
had on Friday, during an interview with Channels TV’s Seun Okinbaloye, said that
the Vice President is a ‘nice man’ and nice people ought to be selling ice
cream and popcorn.
He
also questioned Senate President, Lawan’s administrative capacity and
popularity.
In
a statement on Sunday, Shettima tendered an unreserved apology to the duo,
noting that his comments were to “underline the promise Asiwaju Bola Ahmed
Tinubu’s presidential bid held for those yet to establish the certainty of the
hurdle ahead of the APC.”
“I
never set out to denigrate the personality of any aspirant, and definitely not
that of my dear friends and allies. None of them is an opponent, so their
aspiration isn’t a threat to us. They appear so in the sprint to become the
party’s presidential flag-bearer in the 2023 elections, but they are our allies
in the marathon.
“My
assessments of the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, and the President
of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, were well-intentioned. I never set out to
subject them to ridicule but, rather, to stir up interest in the contrasting
virtues of the cast of aspirants putting up a fight against my preferred
aspirant, one most favoured and advantaged to guarantee APC’s victory in the
forthcoming presidential election.
“My
words weren’t woven to portray them as unworthy aspirants, but merely to
qualify them as non-threatening contenders. I, however, take full
responsibility for my utterances and wish to appeal to our teeming supporters
to neither take my words out of their metaphoric contexts nor interpret them as
a measure and declaration of hostility towards my dear friends and allies.”
Both
Messrs Osinbajo and Lawan are running against the former Lagos State Governor,
Bola Tinubu, and several others.
The
APC will hold its national convention tomorrow to select a candidate out of the
23 aspirants.
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