Former Borno governor, Shettima apologizes for telling Osinbajo to go sell ‘icecream, popcorn’

Former governor of Borno State, Senator Kashim Shettima has apologized to the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo for making a despicable comment against him.

Mr Shettima had on Friday, during an interview on Channels TV, said the Vice President is a ‘nice man’ and nice people ought to be selling ice cream and popcorn.

He apologized to Yemi Osinbajo and the Senate President, Dr Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan over his comment on Channels Television, which he said,
the Vice President is a ‘nice man’ and nice people ought to be selling ice cream and popcorn.

Shettima who is the Director General of Bola Tinubu campaign organisation also queried Dr Lawan has administrative capacity and popularity to win the 2023 presidential election.

Shettima issued a penitent statement on Sunday asking to be forgiven over the comments, noting that his comments were 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.”

Shettima in the statement said, Prof. Osinbajo and Lawan who are presidential aspirants in the 2023 general election are considered not as opponents, but allies whose interests were never a threat to his principal, Bola Ahmed Asiwaju, hence, he didn’t mean to denigrate anyone at all.

According to him, his words were well intended for the duo of Osinbajo and Lawan and not subjecting them to public ridicule as being impressed.

“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.

“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.”

The APC will hold its national convention tomorrow to select a candidate out of the 23 aspirants.