Shettima

The APC Vice Presidential Candidate, Senator Kashim Shettima cast his vote at the Shetimari unit 001 of Lamisula Jabbamari ward in Maiduguri, the Borno.

We are going to win but I urged those who will lose today to ensure they put Nigeria first and sheath their sword for peace in our country.” I believe INEC has done its best and I have cast my vote now. “As a leader, we have to look at this from a different angle.

Mr Shettima, who was accompanied by the Governor of the state, Babagana Zulum, waited for about 10 minutes before leaving.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Shettima arrived at the polling unit around 10 a.m. Good journalism costs a lot of money. Yet only good journalism can ensure the possibility of a good society, an accountable democracy, and a transparent government.

No matter the distractions, the core mission of the church on earth is crystal clear: to help saved humans enter the pearly gates of heaven.

It is the tragedy of our national experience that we would sacrifice competence on the alter of religion. One was amused to hear one of the most brazen of these priest-partisans reminding his tumultuous congregation that the 2023 presidential election is a spiritual battle between our faith and the other. In place of the dominion of the believer, there is only the manipulative domination of the overseer. This misadventure has its ignominious roots in the apostasy that has for decades seen a pivoting from the simple preaching of salvation and sanctification to a strange and psychedelic pseudo pentecostal religion that peddles the purely sensual as spiritual. The Bible says the earth is the lords and the fullness thereof. Abandoning its guardianship, drained of its intercessory and evangelising force, the church, dazed in its fixation with mammon, watched in a stupor as every day, we witnessed heartbreaking manifestations of Nigeria’s descent into utterly avoidable backwardness. The mandate is to help saved humans enter the pearly gates of heaven. It was in this sordid state that some Nigerian church leaders, tragically deficit in prophetic authority, encountered the coming of Tinubu/Shettima. That it achieved that feat despite a firestorm of political deterrents thrown at it, is an instructive pointer to the place of strategic clarity, courage, conviction and faith in leadership. No matter the environmental distractions, the core mission of the church on earth is crystal clear. On the eve of APC’s presidential primaries, when a bewildering storm of shenanigans had all but pointed to imminent defeat for Tinubu, [I had made a spirited case to APC leaders](https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/535311-apc-lawan-tinubu-and-2023-an-atiku-of-faith-by-omotayo-suleiman.html) on why its wisest choice would be Tinubu and why Tinubu’s wisest pick for a running mate will be a fellow Muslim from the North.