People Told Tinubu I Charmed Him With Clothes I Gifted Him – Shettima

Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima

Vice President Kashim Shettima has said that some people from Borno State once warned President Bola Tinubu to stop wearing traditional outfits he received from him during the 2023 election campaign. He recently shared that the people claimed the clothes had been used to charm him and could lead to his death.

Speaking while representing the president at the public presentation of My Life of Duty and Allegiance, the autobiography of former Head of State Yakubu Gowon, Shettima revealed that Tinubu dismissed the allegation and deliberately wore the outfits for an entire week.

Highlighting the growing culture of suspicion in Nigeria, Kashim added that BAT did that to prove there was nothing mystical about the clothes.

His words, “His Eminence, the Sultan of Sokoto, had been narrating the story of the family of the Sultan sending gallons of fura every week to General Yakubu Gowon in Dodan Barracks, because of the trust and confidence General Gowon was willingly receiving it without any suspicion.

But now the game is different. Suspicion smears our relationships, and it ought not to be. We are essentially one people tied to a common destiny.

When I came back from China, where I had represented him at the Belt and Road Initiative Conference, he said: ‘Sit down. Your people came to me and said I should stop wearing those dresses you gave me. They said I must have been charmed, and that I am going to die and he will become the president.’

Their story did not add up, because when you gave me those dresses, I was an aspirant. I wasn’t even the candidate. Neither were you the vice-presidential candidate.

For one week, to prove to them that he is not fetish, he wore those dresses.

These are some of the gimmicks that are taking place in power circles in Nigeria nowadays.”

WOW.