The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), hosted a delegation led by the All Progressives Congress’ stakeholders at the State House, Abuja.

The delegation, which consists of the APC Vice Presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima, Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Idris Wase, and other key members of the party.

Others in the delegation are former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, former Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbe, former Chief of Air Staff Air Marshall Sadiq Abubakar, former governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff, and Senator representing Taraba South Senatorial District, Emmanuel Bwacha

The meeting also had in attendance some members of the Progressives Governors Forum. They include Babagana Zulum of Borno, Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe, Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa and Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi.

However, the party’s standard bearer, Bola Tinubu, was not spotted at the time of this report.

The visit comes about two days after Shettima was unveiled as Tinubu’s substantive running mate.

Reacting to agitations over the Muslim-Muslim ticket floated by his party, he said the APC ticket was not designed to protect the interests of one faith as there were religious leaders to do that.

According to the former governor, “In Borno, we spent over N1bn naira rebuilding churches destroyed by the Boko Haram insurgency. And this legacy has been continued by Governor Babagana Zulum. We have taken more Christian pilgrims to Jerusalem than some of the Northern states headed by Christians.

“So, we have that history of inclusivity, of togetherness. What we need is competent leadership. We are not coming into government to represent the Muslim or the Christian faith. The Sultan of Sokoto is eminently qualified to protect Muslim interests and the CAN president is eminently qualified to defend Christian interests as well,” he said.