Nigeria’s Vice President Kashim Shettima hasn’t been performing critical assignments that are of benefit to the nation, a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC has said.
Eze said President Bola Tinubu has reduced functions of the Vice President to attending weddings and burial ceremonies.
In a statement he made available to journalists in Abuja on Saturday, the former National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (NPDP) expressed disappointment that the office of the Vice President has been reduced to nothing in Tinubu’s tenure.
He wondered why Tinubu cannot handover power to his Vice each time he travelled outside despite Vice President having the constitutional backing and not that of political expediency.
According to Eze, “As much as I am not a supporter of Vice President Kashim Shettima, I must state as a concerned Nigerian that I am not happy with the way and manner such a highly profiled politician is being treated by this administration and turning such a highly respected politician to an agent of government solely for attending wedding and burial ceremonies. This is sad, unfortunate and unacceptable.
“He may not have the courage to voice out his frustration but the fact remains that for the two years that he has serviced as the Vice President of this country and the number of times that President Tinubu has traveled outside this country, Mr President has not found it fit and needful to handover power to the Vice President.
“This act is not only condemnable but against the spirit and letters of the Constitution of this country.
