By Ndahi Marama, Maiduguri
The governor of Borno State, Babagana Umara Zulum, has vowed to deliver the state to the All Prohressives Congress, APC, in the coming 2023 general elections, in reciprocation to its vice presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima’s political benevolence to him.
Zulum said this while speaking in Maiduguri, on Saturday, December 10, when the wife of the APC presidential candidate, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, led the women wing of the APC Presidential Campaign Council on a courtesy call on him.
Senator Tinubu led the team to the flag-off of the North-East APC Women’s Wing presidential electioneering campaigns, in Maiduguri.
Zulum declared, “I have no other alternative than to deliver the state to the Tinubu/Shettima presidential team and the entire APC. I will not let him (Kashim Shettima) down.”
Recalling how, while he was lecturing at the University of Maiduguri, the then Governor Shettima appointed him Rector of the state Polytechnic; after which he appointed him commissioner in his cabinet, and then picked him to succeed him, Zulum vowed, “We shall work assiduously to deliver more than 95 percent of the state to the APC.
He, however, urged the Tinubu/Shettima presidential team to accord greater support to the empowerment of North-East women, especially in education and gender development.
At the flag-off of the electioneering campaigns, Senator Tinubu and the wife of the APC vice presidential candidate, Nana Kashim Shettima, promised to work together to accelerate girl-child education, upscale charity for the vulnerable population and provide employment to the youth.
Senator Tinubu disclosed that youths and women in the region will be accorded the desired attention and given the necessary empowerment to make them more productive to their communities.
She insisted that “there is need to urgently reposition Nigerian youth and make them more resourceful to the nation and engage them positively.”
She added, “I believe that between my self Mrs Nana Kashim Shettima, if God gives us the opportunity, we are promising you that we will make you proud. I have worked with youths most of my life and I have always done charity work.
“IÂ believe that we have a lot of work to do, especially to reposition our youths, make them more resourceful for the nation and also engaged them positively.”
Senator Tinubu also commended the state governor for the specific role he played towards the emergence of her husband as the presidential candidate of the APC.
