2027: Ministers, Party Leaders Ordered To Withhold Comments As APC Says No Decision Yet On President Tinubu’s Running mate
Ahead of the 2027 presidential election, the ruling APC submitted on Monday that no decision has been taken on who will be the party’s Vice Presidential candidate while describing media reports claiming that Vice President Kashim Shettima will be replaced with a Christian as ‘purely speculative, untrue and utterly baseless’.
Team@orientactualmags.com learned that National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr Felix Morka, who made the clarification in a statement he issued in Abuja on Monday, noted that the party has had its attention drawn to ‘growing media frenzy’ that centres on plans to replace Shetimma with another person.
‘While these stories have been mostly subtle, they recently assumed a new dimension when names of specific individuals were touted as possible replacements for Vice President Shettima.
Our party states in categorical terms that the stories are purely speculative, untrue and utterly baseless.
We urge media organizations to refrain from lending their platforms to rumour-peddlers and mischievous ‘news sources’ of questionable provenance whose only intention is to promote discord and confusion in the polity.
Under our laws and electoral regulations, the ban on political activities remains in force.
At this time, our party remains focused on supporting President Tinubu and Vice President Shettima in delivering the administration’s Renewed Hope Agenda and entrenching its bold reforms that are now steadily transforming the economy, building prosperity, and uplifting the living conditions of our people’ the statement added.
APC has also directed party officials and leaders and government officials to refrain from commenting on the issue .
‘We call on our ministers, senior government and party officials to avoid, wittingly or unwittingly, stoking needless speculations, and to focus on their primary duty of diligent service to government and our party’ he said.
The statement urged them to bolster ‘the success and achievements of President Tinubu’ who, the party called, ‘our inimitable and visionary leader’–Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08035023079, 08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com. Thank you
