The Vice-President also disclosed that three opponents who contested against Oyebanji on the platforms of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Social Democratic Party (SDP) and Allied Peoples Movement (APM) had joined the APC campaign to support Tinubu\u2019s re-election.<\/p>\n
Dismissing the opposition\u2019s social media presence as insufficient to translate into electoral support, Shettima said, \u201cThe opposition can rake and rant, but there are no polling booths on Instagram or on Facebook.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
He questioned the political influence of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar in Adamawa, noting that former governors Jibrilla Bindow, Murtala Nyako, Boni Haruna, Bala Ngilari and incumbent Governor Ahmadu Fintiri were not backing him.\n<\/p>\n
Read also:\u00a0Court ruling plunges ADC into crisis, threatening Atiku\u2019s 2027 presidential bid<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n \u201cIf you cannot control your own state, if you are not relevant in your home base, how can you tell others to elect you?\u201d he asked.\n<\/p>\n Shettima argued that elections were determined by grassroots mobilisation and political structures rather than sentiments, urging opposition parties to demonstrate their achievements to Nigerians.<\/p>\n Highlighting the Tinubu administration\u2019s interventions in Ekiti, he listed federal road projects, the establishment of the Federal University of Technology and Environmental Sciences, student loans through NELFUND and plans for a mining and geosciences institute.\n<\/p>\n \u201cWe seek your mandate to complete the work we have begun,\u201d he said. Shettima added that the administration remained committed to delivering ongoing and planned projects.\n<\/p>\n Read also:\u00a0INEC cautions media against fake election results, deepfakes ahead 2027<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n Also speaking, Nentawe Yilwatda, APC National Chairman, urged Ekiti voters to return Tinubu, APC senators, members of the House of Representatives and state lawmakers in 2027.\n<\/p>\n Abdul\u2019aziz Yari, former Zamfara governor, similarly called for at least 800,000 votes for Tinubu in Ekiti, arguing that the administration\u2019s economic reforms and interventions in education had provided grounds for seeking a second term.<\/p>\n Yari, the Director General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council also appealed to voters in Northern Nigeria to support Tinubu, saying the President had helped northern Nigerians attain leadership positions in the country.<\/p>\n Source: <\/p>\n Kashim Shettima, Vice-President, has challenged the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State to secure between 90 and 95 % of the votes cast in the January 16, 2027 presidential… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Related News<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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