{"id":11112,"date":"2022-06-17T21:08:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T20:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyleaks.com\/?p=11112"},"modified":"2022-06-17T21:08:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T20:08:35","slug":"2023-tinubu-names-kabiru-masari-as-running-mate-faskari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyleaks.com\/2023-tinubu-names-kabiru-masari-as-running-mate-faskari\/","title":{"rendered":"2023: Tinubu names Kabiru Masari as running mate \u2013 Faskari"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Marvellous Nyang<\/p>\n
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has named Kabiru Masari as his running mate for the 2023 elections, a party chieftain, Kabiru Faskari, has said.<\/p>\n
Faskari disclosed this on Friday, during an interview on Channels TV’s political documentary programme, “Politics Today.”<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cIbrahim Kabiru Masari is our Vice Presidential nominee. He was the Welfare Secretary of the APC under Oshiomhole (former national chairman of the party). He is a well-known politician in Kaduna State and his name has been submitted.<\/p>\n
Explaining further, Faskari said that picking Kabiru, an indigene of Katsina State, “does not violate the country\u2019s laws as against the clamour for a Muslim\/Christian APC ticket.”<\/p>\n
As he said, Kabiru is experienced, close to Tinubu, and will not have a problem working with the former Lagos State governor.<\/p>\n
ALSO READ:\u00a02023: Atiku picks Okowa as running mate<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cHe is young; he represents the youths and is grounded in politics and was even a national official of the APC. He is quite close to the presidential candidate and has been with him for a very long time. It is a very informed decision to put out his name,\u201d Faskari said.<\/p>\n According to him, the decision to select Masari followed wide consultations and that the party needs a person from a region with a large voting population.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it was the decision of the presidential candidate after due diligence,\u201d Faskari said.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, it is being speculated that the APC is putting Masari’s name forward as a “placeholder” to beat the June 17 deadline set by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for presidential candidates to submit the names of their running mates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Marvellous Nyang The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has named Kabiru Masari as his running mate for the 2023 elections, a party chieftain, Kabiru Faskari, has said. Faskari […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,2],"tags":[507,953,2190,41],"coauthors":[25],"class_list":{"0":"post-11112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"category-politics","9":"category-top-news","10":"tag-apc","11":"tag-bola-tinubu","12":"tag-kabiru-masari","13":"tag-nigeria"},"yoast_head":"\n