The Vice President-elect, Kashim Shettima, has endorsed the zoning of key offices of the 10th National Assembly as outlined by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Shettima who made the endorsement while addressing Akpabio and Barau, who visited him in the company of “over 70” senators-elect in Abuja on Wednesday, said the choice of Godswill Akpabio and Jibrin Barau for President and Deputy President of the Senate, respectively, will stabilise Nigeria.
Shettima, who is a serving member of the Senate, said “politics shouldn’t be a means of disuniting our people, it should rather be a means of uniting us.”
He said with him and the President-elect and the Vice President-elect being Muslims, the next position be given to the Christian faith in the interest of the stability and unity of this country.
He said the zoning would further validate the alleged Islamisation agenda of the APC-led administration.
“It would be perceived as a gratuitous insult to our Christian brothers and sisters who stuck out their necks to support us. That was why I was quite pleased with the choice of the party leadership that my uncommon brother and leader, in the person of Senator Godswill Akpabio, should be the number three citizen of this country.
“The stability of this nation is much more important than whatever political considerations we may think of. We need to have a stable and united nation before we can talk about politics and positions. This is what our leader could do to unite this country in the current circumstances.”
Shettima said he would approach other Senate presidential aspirants who are aggrieved with the choices of the APC.
