The attempt by some APC political stakeholders in the North East Zone to scheme out Vice-President Kashim Shettima in the party has reared it’s ugly head again as the Speaker of the Borno State House of Assembly, Abdulkarim Lawan, has protested the exclusion of picture of the country s number two citizen on the banner portraying party leaders in the region.
The banner carried the picture of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, five APC governors of the NorthEast and the National Legal Adviser.
Protesting the development, the speaker noted that it was unfair for the organisers to print the banner without the picture of the vice president, particularly, as the event is taking place in his hometown.
Abdulkarim recalled that a past similar omission triggered the fracas that disrupted the APC meeting in Gombe last year.
“This is what created the fracas in Gombe, and it’s repeating itself here in Borno. I don’t know the motive of the organisers but it’s not right.”
“How can the organisers exclude the picture of a sitting vice president, who is from Borno and the North East zone,” he wondered.
Reports say his reaction was reechoed by the crowd, who responded with a thunderous applaue.
According to the report, Governors and stakeholders of the APC are currently in Maiduguri, Borno State capital, for the North East zonal public hearing for the amendment of the party’s Constitution.
