Faulty presidential jet stops Shettima from overseas travel
Nigeria’s vice president Kashim Shettima failed to make his planned overseas travel to the United States for an official function, after his presidential jet developed a fault.
A presidency statement says that Shettima initially planned to represent President Bola Tinubu at the 2024 US-Africa Business Summit in Dallas, Texas.
Yusuf Tuggar, the minister of foreign affairs, will now step in for the president.
“Vice President Kashim Shettima who was originally scheduled to represent the President was unable to make the trip following a technical fault with his aircraft, forcing him to make a detour on the advice of the Presidential Air Fleet,” Stanley Nkwocha, spokesperson for Shettima, said in a statement.
TheCornet gathered that Tuggar will be speaking to world leaders at the event on the ways of transiting “from food insecurity to thriving agribusinesses”. He will equally speak at a session on ‘Navigating Africa’s Energy Future’ among other activities.
African leaders expected to be at the summit are Presidents Joseph Boakai of Liberia; Lazarus Chakwera of Malawi; Joao Lourenço Angola; Mokgweetsi E. K. Masisi of Republic of Botswana; José Maria Neves of Cabo Verde and the Deputy Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Lesotho, Nthomeng Majara.
