Report reaching GHnews has indicated that the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, Bola Tinubu(BAT), has finally picked former Borno State governor , Senator Kashim Shetima as his running mate in the 2023 general elections.
Kashim Ibrahim Shettima (born 2 September 1966) is a Nigerian banker and politician who has served as Senator for Borno Central since 2019. He previously served as the Governor of Borno State from 2011 to 2019.
The son of Governor of Northern Nigeria Kashim Ibrahim, Shettima graduated from the University of Maiduguri and the University of Ibadan. After schooling, he entered business and banking, eventually rising to hold several high-ranking executive positions at banks.
Shettima worked with the Commercial Bank of Africa as an Agricultural Economist at its Ikeja Office, Lagos State (1993-1997). He then became a deputy manager, later manager, at the African International Bank Limited, Kaduna Branch (1997–2001), and was appointed Deputy Manager/Branch Head of the Zenith Bank’s Maiduguri Office in 2001, becoming General Manager five years later. In mid-2007,Shettima was appointed Commissioner of the Borno State Ministry of Finance and Economic Development.[1] Later he became Commissioner in the Ministries of Local Governments and Chieftaincy Affairs, Education, Agriculture and later Health under his predecessor as Borno Governor Ali Modu Sheriff.[2]