Kashim Shettima, the vice-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has stated the nation wants a pacesetter with “a dose of hospitality” like the previous navy head of state, Sani Abacha. 

Mr Shettima famous that solely Bola Tinubu, amongst different presidential candidates, has Mr Abacha’s qualities. 

The operating mate additionally reeled out different attributes of former Nigerian chief navy leaders which he claims his principal possesses.

“We want a pacesetter with a imaginative and prescient and sense of accountability and dedication, and someone who understands the nationwide title of the nation of an Abdulsalami Abubakar, and in our systemic circumstances, we’d like a pacesetter with a dose of the hospitality of a Sani Abacha,” Mr Shettima stated on Thursday on the 96th anniversary of the Yoruba Tennis Membership in Ikoyi, Lagos. 

Mr Abacha was Nigeria’s navy head of state from November 17, 1993 to June 8, 1998 earlier than he instantly died. 

Mr Abacha’s navy junta assumed international notoriety for its brutal model and scant regard for human rights and big crackdown on the media, civil rights teams, and pro-democracy campaigners. 

Talking additional, Mr Shettima defined that the final political scenario of the nation wants the competencies of a detribalised and dedicated Nigerian like Mr Tinubu.

He stated that Mr Tinubu, who has continued to benefit from the assist of previous leaders of the nation, can be pragmatic in his method to making sure that the nation experiences progress and progress via unity if elected. 

“We want a pacesetter with the mental acumen, with the motion to catapult this nation to a better pedestrian. We want a pacesetter who just isn’t certain by regional or spiritual sentiment.

“We want a pacesetter that has established such data of excellence and dedication to good governance. There isn’t a one, with all due respect, that matches this higher than Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,” the APC vice-presidential candidate stated.