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President Bola Tinubu and Kassim Shettima on the campaign trail President Bola Tinubu and Kassim Shettima on the campaign trail. Laolu Akande, a former presidential spokesperson, has criticized the decision by the federal government to allow President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima to leave governance for foreign trips abroad simultaneously. ...READ THE FULL STORY FROM SOURCE ↔️
Akande expressed his views during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily program on Thursday, October 17th.
“It is important for one of them to be on the ground because the work of governance requires a lot of hand-holding,” he said.
“In my view, we still have a very serious problem of sustained trust in the relationship between the President and the Vice President over time,” Akande added.
Shettima departed Abuja on Wednesday, October 16th for Sweden on a two-day visit to represent Nigeria in bilateral engagements, while President Bola Tinubu, who is on a two-week leave, left Nigeria for the United Kingdom on October 2nd, 2024.
In a statement on Wednesday, presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga stated that the two leaders “are fully engaged with the nation’s affairs, even while they are away,” and there is no vacuum in governance.
However, Akande said, “The ideal thing is for us not to have a situation where both the president and the vice president are not in town, that’s the ideal situation.
I remember that during the eight years I served, that happened only once during the burial of the Queen (of England) which also fell at the same time as the UNGA and I knew how the president and the vice president were checking on each other to ensure that somebody gets back.
“So, in eight years, they managed to ensure that for the most part, one person is always on the ground. I know quite a few times when the vice president had to just wrap up foreign trips because something happened and the president will have to travel.”...For More READ THE FULL STORY ▶▶
