Current Senator and the former governor of Borno state, Kashim Shettima has apologised for the “unintentionally” abuse of the current Vice president of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo and the Senate president Ahmed Lawan.
My Channels TV interview Taken Out of Context 1. When I appeared on Channels TV last Thursday amidst the tension rippling through our political arena, it was to underline the promise Bola Tinubu’s presidential bid held for those yet to establish the certainty of the hurdle ahead of the All Progressives Congress.
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 Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Senate President 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.
The interpretations of my remarks on Yemi Osinbajo and Senator Lawan are, thus, being done literally and overblown.
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