Our reporter/ Ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) meeting in the North-East to endorse President Bola Tinubu for a second term ended in chaos on Sunday, following the alleged refusal of key party stakeholders to endorse Vice President Kashim Shettima alongside the president.
A video circulated by AIT showed party members fighting each other as the event ended abruptly.
The meeting was held in Gombe State and attended by key APC stakeholders in the region, including ministers, lawmakers and others. The party’s national chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje, was also in attendance.
It was gathered that tension erupted when the national vice chairman (North-East), Mustapha Salihu, failed to mention Shettima in his speech while endorsing Tinubu for a second term.
Salihu’s action provoked heated controversy among delegates who dared to attack him. The intervention of the deputy national vice chairman (North-East), Bukar Dalori, who mounted the podium after Salihu’s speech, doused the tension.
However, delegates got incensed again when Ganduje also failed to mention Shettima while endorsing Tinubu in his speech, provoking attendees to exchange blows and disrupting the event.
Gombe State Governor Muhammadu Yahaya had on Saturday endorsed Tinubu for a second term, acknowledging the president’s continued support for the state.
“I want to assure the president that for what he did and for what he is doing, in terms of bringing change and development to Nigeria. The people of Gombe State will follow him blindfolded, and from what I see, about 2027, his return is assured,”
Yahaya said.
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