Running Mate: Tinubu Is A Strategist, Kwankwaso Hails

• I’m happy with Tinubu-Shettima combination – Kwankwaso

• …my only worry is the platform (APC). This platform…I don’t know.

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that the pick of Bola Tinubu’s running mate has been praised by the former governor of Kano, Rabiu Kwankwaso.

Kashim Shettima, a former governor of Borno, was named the vice presidential candidate by the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential flagbearer.

The politician who was formerly a banker and is now a senator for Borno Central District is 55 years old.

In an interview with Arise News on Sunday, Kwankwaso described Tinubu as a strategist.

“Shettima was my colleague as a governor during my second term. He’s a gentleman, he’s a good man. I wish him well.

“I’m so happy with that combination; my only worry is the platform (APC). This platform…I don’t know.

“Bola Tinubu a strategist. I had reasons to sit with him an uncountable number of times from 1992 till date.

“I wish I will see him to ask what he’ll do differently from what Muhammadu Buhari is doing today. That is my serious concern for him”, he said.

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Kwankwaso, 65, is the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).

The former Defence Minister represented Kano Central Senatorial District from June 2015 to June 2019.

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