Omokri mocks Tinubu for choosing Shettima as his running mate and paints the former governor as a fan of Boko Haram.

Reno Omokri, a former presidential adviser, criticised Bola Tinubu’s selection of Kashim Shettima, a former governor of Borno State, as his running mate. Bola Tinubu is the presidential candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Following a Sunday meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in Daura, Katsina, Tinubu named Shettima as his running mate.

Omokri called the former governor of Borno a “sympathiser” of Boko Haram when he responded to the news on Twitter.

He wrote: “So, APC is giving us Tinubu, a drug lord, and Kashim Shettima, a suspected Boko Haram sympathiser, as presidential candidate and running mate. Really? Is this the best the APC could do? Drugs and terrorism? What a mixture. White heroin and guns! Which way Nigeria?.”

Omokri recalled how former Borno State Governor, Ali Modu Sheriff, had in 2016 accused Shettima of creating and funding Boko Haram during his tenure.

In a separate tweet, he noted that former President Goodluck Jonathan claimed that the ex-governor frustrated the fight against the Boko Haram insurgency in the state.