{"id":202868,"date":"2022-07-12T08:54:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T07:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=202868"},"modified":"2022-07-12T08:54:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T07:54:31","slug":"12-key-things-you-probably-do-not-know-about-tinubus-running-mate-kashim-shettima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/07\/12\/12-key-things-you-probably-do-not-know-about-tinubus-running-mate-kashim-shettima\/","title":{"rendered":"12 key things you probably do not know about Tinubu&#8217;s running mate, Kashim Shettima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\">Senator<span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> Kashim<\/span> <\/span>Shettima, a former governor of Borno State has been announced as the running mate of presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu for the 2023 election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\">The announcement was made on Sunday by Bola Tinubu while addressing journalists after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in Daura, Katsina state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\">Shettima is a serving senator and a former two-term Governor of Borno State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\">Here are 12 key things you probably do not know about Tinubu&#8217;s running mate, Kashim Shettima;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\">1. Sen. Kashim Shettima was born in Maiduguri, Borno state to the family of Sir Kashim Ibrahim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\">2. He is married to Nana Shettima, and they have three children: two females and a male.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\">3. He studied at the University of Maiduguri, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/04\/27\/boko-haram-invades-gwoza-in-borno-state\/\">Borno State<\/a> and earned a degree (BSc) in Agricultural Economics in 1989.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\">4. Shettima obtained a master\u2019s degree (MSc) in Agricultural Economics in 1991 at the University of Ibadan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\">5. He joined the University of Maiduguri as a lecturer with the Department of Agricultural Economics and was in academia from 1991 to 1993.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: inherit\">6. He also worked in the banking sector (from 1997 to 2007) before venturing into politics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: inherit\">7. In 2007, Shettima was appointed as Commissioner for Finance in Borno and the governor of Borno State for two terms (2011-2019).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: inherit\">8. In February 2019, he became the winner of the Borno Central Senatorial District election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: inherit\">9. He was Commissioner of Local Governments and Chieftaincy Affairs (2008), Education (2009), Agriculture and Natural Resources and finally to the Ministry of Health from where he contested the Governorship in 2011 which he won under the platform of the now defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP and was inaugurated on May 29, 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: inherit\">10. He won reelection in 2015 under the APC and was chosen as Chairman of the Northern States Governors\u2019 Forum, an umbrella body of Governors in the 19 States located in northern Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: inherit\">11. Shettima\u2019s leadership credentials have attracted positive recognition within and outside Nigeria. Governor Shettima emerged the 2014 Governor of the Year (Leadership Newspapers), Governor of the Year, 2015, (Nigeria Union of Journalists, national body);<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">12. Other awards include: Governor of the Year, 2015 (News Watch Times Newspapers); Governor of the Year, 2015 (Vanguard Newspapers); Governor of the Year, 2016 (Tell Magazine); 2017 ZIK Prize for Leadership; Kaduna NUJ Award for courage and exceptional leadership (2017), FCT NUJ Merit Award for exceptiona<\/span><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: inherit\">l Leadership, 2017.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Kashim Shettima, a former governor of Borno State has been announced as the running mate of presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu for the 2023 election. 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