VP Kashim Shettima’s near miss, by Ochereome Nnanna
Many of Shettima’s teeming supporters and friends had feared that the former high performing governor of Borno State and chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum might suffer the same fate as Tinubu’s erstwhile deputy governors.
As chairman of Northern governors, Shettima worked hard to mend fences between the North and the Igbo nation at the height of the Biafra agitations and the “Igbo quit notice” in 2017 triggered by former President Muhammadu Buhari’s divisive, Fulani expansion rule.
As we look to the oncoming political campaigns, which kick off in late September, I hope Tinubu and Shettima will give more thought to capitalising on their harmonious relationship to make life better for the ordinary Nigerian.
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