{"id":95695,"date":"2022-06-03T19:29:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T18:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=95695"},"modified":"2022-06-03T19:36:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T18:36:30","slug":"itll-be-catastrophic-for-apc-if-tinubu-loses-ticket-says-shettima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/itll-be-catastrophic-for-apc-if-tinubu-loses-ticket-says-shettima\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019ll be catastrophic for APC if Tinubu loses ticket, says Shettima"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Kashim Shettima, former governor of Borno, says it will be \u201ccatastrophic\u201d for the All Progressives Congress (APC) if Bola Tinubu, former Lagos governor, isn\u2019t elected as the party\u2019s presidential candidate.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He said this on Friday, while featuring on a programme on TVC.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cWe are in a democratic situation but I\u2019m afraid it might be catastrophic for the party. I\u2019m not a prophet of doom; I\u2019m an internal optimist. We have done our own bidding and by God\u2019s grace, our candidate will emerge as the presidential flagbearer of the APC\u00a0 in the next 72 hours,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cIt is not a subject of dispute but a question of time. He has paid the price, and yesterday in Abeokuta, he made some remarks that were deliberately distorted and quoted out of context.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cWhether they are willing to admit it or not, he played a pivotal role not only in the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari as the candidate of the APC, but in the ultimate election in 2015.\u201d<\/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>Kashim Shettima, former governor of Borno, says it will be \u201ccatastrophic\u201d for the All Progressives Congress (APC) if Bola Tinubu, former Lagos governor, isn\u2019t elected as the party\u2019s presidential candidate.&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":95696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95695","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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