UNVEILED: The Katsina politician named Tinubu’s running mate

<p><strong><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;Openlife&period;ng">Asiwaju Bola Tinubu<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;Openlife&period;ng">Presidential Candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress &lpar;APC&rpar;<&sol;a>&comma; has dropped the name of <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;Openlife&period;ng">Alhaji Kabir Ibrahim Masari<&sol;a> as his running mate for the <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;Openlife&period;ng">2023 Presidential election<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Tinubu dropped his name as a place holder ahead of the Independent National Electoral Commission &lpar;INEC&rpar; deadline for parties to submit the names of their candidates for the 2023 elections&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15148" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;06&sol;Screenshot&lowbar;20220617-180847&lowbar;1-300x198&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"198" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Alhaji Kabir Ibrahim Masari<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sources in the camp of Tinubu and Masari confirmed this to <em>Daily Trust<&sol;em> on Thursday evening&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The running mate of the APC Presidential Candidate hails from Masari&comma; a village in Kafur Local Government Area of Katsina State&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He is the kinsman of Rt&period; Hon&period; Aminu Bello Masari&comma; governor of Katsina&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The running mate of the APC Presidential Candidate served as the National Welfare Secretary of the ruling party during the tenure of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as National Chairman&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Oshiomhole chaired APC from 2018 to 2020&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Tinubu’s running mate was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party &lpar;PDP&rpar; in the era of late President Umaru Musa YarÁdua&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After the death of YarÁdua in 2010&comma; Masari defected to the Congress for Progressives Change &lpar;CPC&rpar;&comma; the party under which President Muhammadu Buhari contested but lost the 2011 election&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Masari had worked for the president but ex-President Goodluck Jonathan&comma; who stepped into office after YarÁdua’s death&comma; won the election&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ahead of the 2015 election&comma; CPC collapsed its structure into APC and Masari joined the ruling party&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He was also involved in the election where an opposition party unseated a ruling party for the first time in the history of the country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There are reports that Tinubu would replace Masari before the election as he only dropped his name to meet INEC’s deadline&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Tinubu is still consulting widely on the choice of his running mate&period; He would replace Masari as soon as the right candidate is selected&comma;”<&sol;strong> <&sol;em>a source said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;pastor-who-prophesied-victory-for-osinbajo-at-apc-primaries-reveals-what-went-wrong&sol;">Pastor Who Prophesied Victory For Osinbajo At APC Primaries Reveals What Went Wrong<&sol;a><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p>Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar of the PDP has named Governor Ifeanyi Okowa as his running mate in the 2023 election&comma; which is widely seen as a two horse race&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;