2027: Shettima charges on peaceful, issue-based campaign

Vice President Kashim Shettima, has charged those campaigning for the All Progressive Congress (APC) joint ticket to ensure that their mobilization for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is peaceful and issue-based.
Shettima, who spoke on Monday in Abuja when he formally inaugurated the National Working Committee of the National Working Committee of Transporters for Tinubu/Shettima 2027 observed that there is no group in the nation that connects communities as much as transporters.
Represented by the Deputy Chief of Staff to the President, Senator Ibrahim Hadejia, the Vice President noted that beyond their operational duty, transport workers are unparalleled ambassadors of the nation.
The Vice President described transport workers as credible witnesses to the administration’s struggles, while also acknowledging their role in conveying people and goods across the nation on a daily basis.
The VP recalled that on June 15, 2026, he had welcomed the transport workers to “the fold of patriots who’ve come together to promote the interests of the nation above misinformation, disinformation and economic sabotage.”
The VP, however, cautioned the transport workers to keep their activities peaceful and their campaign issue-based, pointing out that no political objective is improved by disorder.
His words: “I appeal to each of you to remember that political participation places obligations on those who organise others. Keep your engagements peaceful and your message issue-based, even as he implored them to “reject violence, threats, intimidation, misinformation, and every form of electoral misconduct.”
earlier, the National Coordinator of the Transporters for Tinubu/Shettima 2027, Prince Segun Obayendo, said the support of stakeholders in the nation’s transport and logistics sector was driven by the impactful reforms and investments of the Tinubu administration in the ecosystem.