Shettima: Presidency reveals when Tinubu will choose running mate

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According to the Presidency, President Bola Tinubu will only select his running mate for the 2027 election after publicly accepting the nomination of the All Progressives Congress at its 2026 convention.

In an interview with the Daily Trust newspaper on Thursday, Bayo Onanuga, the President’s Special Advisor on Information and Strategy, revealed this.

Onanuga dismissed the worry that the president has not spoken out against Vice President Kashim Shettima’s exclusion from a flurry of support for Tinubu.

He said there was no truth to the rumors that Tinubu and Shettima were at odds.

“When I read the report, I dismissed it as a non issue. In a presidential system, the candidate emerges first and then selects a running mate. That’s what happened under Buhari – he was nominated first and later picked his running mate. You don’t do both at once.

“Once INEC releases the timetable, the party convention will hold, and if the president is nominated again, he will choose his run-ning mate,” he said.

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