My Channels TV Interview Taken Out of Context

1. When I appeared on Channels TV last Thursday amidst the tension rippling through our political arena, it was to underline the promise Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s presidential bid held for those yet to establish the certainty of the hurdle ahead of the APC. I never set out to denigrate the personality of any aspirant, and definitely not that of my dear friends and allies. None of them is an opponent, so their aspiration isn’t a threat to us. They appear so in the sprint to become the party’s presidential flag-bearer in the 2023 elections, but they are our allies in the marathon.

2. My assessments of the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, and the President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, were well-intentioned. I never set out to subject them to ridicule but, rather, to stir up interest in the contrasting virtues of the cast of aspirants putting up a fight against my preferred aspirant, one most favoured and advantaged to guarantee APC’s victory in the forthcoming presidential election.

3. The interpretations of my remarks on Professor Osinbajo and Senator Lawan are, thus, being done literally and overblown. My words weren’t woven to portray them as unworthy aspirants, but merely to qualify them as non-threatening contenders. I, however, take full responsibility for my utterances and wish to appeal to our teeming supporters to neither take my words out of their metaphoric contexts nor interpret them as a measure and declaration of hostility towards my dear friends and allies.

4. I hereby tender my unreserved apologies to the Vice President and the President of the Senate for the unintended pains my jibes might have caused them and their families and supporters.

5. As we approach the finishing line of this tense political race, I’m not unaware of who the actual opponents are. A divided house, even if in the assumptions and imaginations of supporters with a distant grasp of our relationships with other aspirants, is the last impression we wish to create among Nigerians.

6. I want this to be taken as an appeal to our supporters across all political camps to build bridges and mend fences as the actual journey is just about to begin. Victory, for the discerning, has always been the first lap of the race. Thank you for your understanding.

Kashim Shettima

The fear of incoming is the beginning of wisdom

What's done is done; keep making the job of those interested in wrestling power out of your cancerous hands easy.

Shettima the big mouthed guy

Shettima the shitman who uses his brain after talking.

Too late

Ok

Shettima no try at all.. that was too personal and disrespectful .

Osibanjo is a weak man.. he can’t handle Nigeria present Giants .. he will be lost like Gej .. Tinubu is the man from south that would .. but he’s miscalculated.. supporting an easterner would have made him a true JAGABAN.. and Retired Obasanjo from National setting ..

Is all ambition

Power to the people
North 2023

Same way he and his principal were quoted out of context

Abeg make them serve both of them ice cream for the primaries

Yeye dey smell.
You carry gun and calculatively aim it at me, then you pull the trigger and fire 3 clean shots at my leg.
My leg is shattered by your gun shots, then you turn around to apologise and tell me it was not intentional.
My friend get the fvck off, I go fire your leg too make you feel am too.
Apology kee you there.

Just incase you are still doubting Peter Obi's competence