{"id":103075,"date":"2023-02-08T12:44:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T11:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=103075"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:44:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T11:44:06","slug":"north-is-not-supporting-me-because-im-kanuri-shettima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/north-is-not-supporting-me-because-im-kanuri-shettima\/","title":{"rendered":"North is not supporting me because I\u2019m Kanuri: Shettima"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Kashim Shettima, has alleged that Northerners were reluctant to support him because of his Kanuri ethnic heritage.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cPeople are saying that I\u2019m not Hausa. We have had people from the north who are not Hausa and they benefitted the north. Umar Musa Yar\u2019adua, Buhari and others are examples.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not Hausa, but I am Fulani-blood related. I\u2019m a Kanuri also, and I have benefit the north than the other,\u201d the APC vice presidential candidate added.<\/p>\n<p>During a visit to the Emir of Daura in Katsina, the running mate to Bola Tinubu said that northerners in states with predominant Hausa and Fulani people were refusing to back him.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Hausa and in reference to Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Shettima said, \u201cOurs is ours, but our man who does not benefit us cannot be considered as our own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He, therefore, challenged the audience to show him what Mr Abubakar did for the region during his eight years as vice president that warrants their vote.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Shettima furthered challenged the audience to mention eight successful people that Mr Abubakar had mentored through his political career.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Kashim Shettima, has alleged that Northerners were reluctant to support him because of his Kanuri ethnic heritage. \u201cPeople are saying that&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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