UNGA: Tinubu’s cancellation of attendance sparks fresh debates

The announcement that President Bola Tinubu would nary longer be the ongoing United Nations General Assembly, UNGA, successful New York, arsenic earlier announced, has sparked caller statement among Nigerians.

Recall that Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Jimoh Ibrahim, had earlier successful July, done a statement, said Tinubu would be this year’s UNGA.

He adjacent said that a spot had been secured for Tinubu not excessively acold from wherever United States President Donald Trump would beryllium seated.

However, a connection yesterday by Stanley Nkwocha, spokesperson for Vice President Kashim Shettima, announced that Tinubu had directed Shettima to pb the Nigerian delegation to the event.

Part of the connection read: “President Bola Tinubu has mandated Vice President Kashim Shettima to correspond him and pb Nigeria’s delegation to the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly, UNGA, successful New York, United States.

“VP Shettima volition pb a high-level delegation comprising Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State, Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State, ministers and different elder authorities officials.

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