An All Progressives Congress (APC), chieftain, Ariyi Emami has disclosed the reason members of the party from the South-South and South-East regions boycotted the unveiling of Kashim Shettima as the vice presidential candidate of the party
Ayiri dismissed rumours alleging that the chieftains refused to attend the event due to their dissatisfaction with the choice of Shettima.
Speaking with newsmen in Abuja on Saturdays the chieftain explained that most people who stayed away from the unveiling did so because they thought having been presented to President Muhammadu Buhari, the ceremony of the formal unveiling of Shettima was no longer necessary.
He said: “Even me I was not there, because to us, Shettima has been unveiled before now by Asiwaju himself. So, I was sleeping at home that day, when they called me. What did I need to go and do there? So, I don’t see any political undertone in that. We have been told that it is Shettima and we have been…
