In a explanation on Monday morning, September 2, 2024, the administration tended to overflowing hypotheses of contact between both APC chieftains. FCT, Abuja – Stanley Nkwocha, the senior special assistant to the president on media and communications (office of the vice president), has quashed reports of a fissure between President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and vice president, Kashim Shettima. In a piece written to celebrate Shettima on his 58th birthday on Monday, September 2, Nkwocha insisted that the former Borno state governor and ex-senator remains a colossal member of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration.

statement by Nkwocha said: “For those peddling ludicrous conspiracy theories of a fictional rift in the presidency which, according to the schemers, has led to Senator Shettima being sidelined and stripped of his roles as vice president, here is also an opportunity to know the facts. “In the history of Nigeria’s presidency, no vice president has enjoyed the total confidence and full support of his principal like Shettima. In return, his loyalty to his boss, President Tinubu, as attested by well-meaning Nigerians who have been keeping tab with the goings-on in the presidency, is absolute and unalloyed.”

Nkwocha cited Shettima’s later laud for President Tinubu as confirmation of a cheerful relationship between both politicians. Moreover, Nkwocha portrayed speculations in later days that Shettima is being sidelined as illogical trick theories.