Nigerian Concord Newspaper
A group of the All Progressive Congress in the Northeast has accused the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume of fueling insecurity in Benue state so as to remove Governor Hyacinth Alia and install someone who can help him raise huge funds to finance his ambition to get the slot of the running mate to President Bola Tinubu in 2027.
The Northeast APC group which made this accusation during a press conference addressed at City Green Hotel in Yola this morning accused the SGF of using some Pan Yoruba groups to call against a Muslim-Muslim Ticket in 2027.
The group also stated that those Pan Yoruba groups have started talking to President Bola Tinubu on the need to zone the Vice Presidential slot to the North Central where he can pick a Christian to run as his running mate. “As a matter of fact, they have started canvassing for Senator George Akume who had bribed them already as the man from the North Central if their plot to make Tinubu drop the current Vice President, Kassim Shettima succeeds” the group said.
The group leader, Ambassador Sule Abubakar during the press conference said that the SGF has been spending heavily to make sure that the vice president is dropped by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in 2027 because he wants to be the next vice president.
Abubakar added that the SGF is also using the national chairman of the All Progressive Congress, Alhaji Umar Ganduje to perfect his plot to drop Shettima as the next vice presidential candidate of the party.
Abubakar said further: “That is why Ganduje refused to endorse Shettima at the North East APC meeting where only President Bola Tinubu was endorsed yesterday. The president too may have agreed with the plot and that is why you won’t see Shettima’s photo in any of the billboards and posters which they have erected and pasted for the endorsement of the president.
“It was Senator George Akume that sponsored Ganduje to embarrass Vice President Kassim Shettima at the Northeast APC meeting yesterday by not endorsing him alongside President Tinubu just because he is scheming to be the next vice president.
“That explains why he has been fueling crisis and killings in his state just to use a State of Emergency to remove the governor and install a stooge that can steal government funds for him to enable him finance his ambition in the entire North”