Gov. Shettima Of Borno State Speaks On How Boko Haram Helped Buhari Win Presidential Election

Shettima Speaks On How Buhari Got 800,000 Votes In Presidential Elections

Kashim Shettima, governor of Borno State has described the State which has suffered wreck from incessant Boko Haram attack as a President Muhammadu Buhari territory.

Speaking in a broadcast, the governor noted that that was why the results of the February 23 presidential election from the state is not surprising.

Naija News reports that critics had questioned how President Buhari polled 836,496 votes while his immediate opposition, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) polled only 71,788 votes, considering the deplorable security situation faced by the state and its people.

Shettima said, the state gave Buhari so many votes because APC members were able to mobilise people to go out and exercise their franchise.

His words “Borno is a Buhari territory from time immemorial. When I contested for the governorship, Buhari got over 90 percent of the votes in Borno, when he contested under the platform of the CPC,” 

“In 2015, Buhari got the highest percentage of votes nationwide, not in Katsina, not in Kano, not in Sokoto. It was in Borno that Buhari got 97.3 percent. Candidate Jonathan got a paltry 2.7 percent in Borno. So it is nothing surprising that this time around, Buhari still garnered the highest quantum of votes in terms of percentage, in terms of differential, we are number three.

“Honestly, before we went to the polls, I was thinking we would beat Kano. It is not about the number of registered voters. We have 2.4 million registered voters. It is the ability to mobilise the mass of humanity to come and exercise their franchise.

“Politics goes beyond deliberate distortion of facts, politics goes beyond concoction of lies. It goes beyond impugning on the integrity of others. The bottom line is how you are able to mobilise your supporters to come out and vote. This is precisely what we did and this is precisely what we are going to do on Saturday.”

Shettima was also elected to represent Borno central senatorial district.