2027 VP: Congratulations to Shettima, By SULEIMAN A. SULEIMAN
Salihu’s statement makes sense only in the context of a president seeking to switch their running mate, and only President Tinubu’s personal political body language could have suggested that or given rise to it.
An incumbent president who seeks to swap deputies during a second-term election must picture the political unknowns of working together with an entirely different person after victory, if it happens.
Just 18 minutes after it was posted online by a national paper last Friday, I saw a breaking news story saying that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had officially renominated Vice President Kashim Shettima as his running mate for the 2027 election.
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