Kashim Shettima, the vice presidential candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC), has addressed why he compared his boss Bola Ahmed Tinubu to previous tyrant Sani Abacha.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, the former governor of Borno previously claimed that Tinubu will provide leadership akin to that of Sani Abacha.
Shettima, though, claimed in a statement released on Friday that his opinions had been twisted “to settle party scores”.
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He said that everyone could watch the footage of the speech he gave in Lagos.
He said; “I never attributed hospitality to Abacha in my speech.
“I did a rundown of our past presidents and played up “the taciturnity and a dose of the ruthlessness of a Sani Abacha”.
He explained that what he meant by his comment was that strongmen like Abacha are needed to put an end to the insecurity plaguing the country.
“To deal with the nonstate actors who’ve turned Nigeria into a vast killing field”.
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“I was quick to tease the audience, appreciating the humour hovering around the hall, with the familiar jibe that nice men don’t make good leaders.
“By nice men, I meant those who get easily manipulated and pressured to divert state resources to appeal to private expectations”, he added.
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