Shettima Meets Former Lawmakers, Solicits Support For Tinubu

Nigeria’s Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, met with some former lawmakers of the 9th Senate at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Friday, July 7, 2023.

At the meeting, Nigeria’s second citizen appealed to the politicians and Nigerians at large to, regardless of socio-political background, support the actualisation of the policies and programmes of the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Naija News reports that details of Shettima’s meeting with the former lawmakers were conveyed in a statement issued by the Director of Information in his office, Olusola Abiola.

The Vice President expressed gratitude for the solidarity of the former lawmakers and assured them of his “unflinching support and loyalty”.

While addressing State House Correspondents shortly after the meeting with the Vice President, Sen. Ibrahim Oloriegbe, who led the delegation, said, “We are here to felicitate with the Vice President who was one of us.

“We came to felicitate with him on his assumption of office, to also pray for Mr President and himself (the Vice President) for the success of their administration.”

Continuing, he disclosed that “We are also here to pledge our support, as Nigerians, as leaders in this country and as party men in the APC, that we are full with this government, and we will do all that is necessary for the success of the ‘Renewed Hope’ agenda. We also used the opportunity to thank the Vice President for appointing one of us as the Deputy Chief of Staff.”

Other members of the delegation include Senators Ibrahim Danbaba from Sokoto State; Suleiman Kwari from Kaduna State; Yakubu Oseni from Kogi; Hezekiah Dimka from Plateau State; Lawal Anka from Zamfara; Bulus Amos from Gombe; Nora Daduut from Plateau State; Kola Balogun from Oyo State; Kabir Barkiya from Katsina; Oriolowo Adelere from Osun State and Ibrahim Gobir from Sokoto State.