- APC National Vice Chairman, said President Tinubu has the constitutional authority to choose his running mate for the 2027 elections.
- He addressed the controversy that spiralled into Sunday’s chaos, and also urged party members not to fall for what he called “conspiracy theories”.
- Salihu denied deliberately excluding Shettima from his speech.
Two days after he narrowly escaped a violent mob attack at the All Progressives Congress North-East stakeholders’ meeting in Gombe, the party’s National Vice Chairman (North-East),