The Vice-President-elect, Kashim Shettima, has revealed how gender-friendly Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the President-elect of Nigeria, tenure would be after taking office on May 29, 2023.
In the absence of any last-minute changes, Tinubu will succeed President Muhammadu Buhari on May 29.
Shettima, in his remarks prior to the event, promised that the new administration would be welcoming to people of all genders.
Speaking last Saturday, April 29, at the book reading of Hadiza Bala Usman, the former managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), in Abuja, the former governor of Borno State made this statement.
Bala Usman wrote about her time working for the Nigerian Ports Authority in the book “Stepping On Toes: My Odyssey at the Nigerian Ports Authority.”
Shettima, a guest of honour at the occasion, commended the author for writing the book.
He said, “Be assured that the incoming Administration of Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu will be gender friendly.
“Asiwaju is the first person that appointed a woman as Deputy Governor in this country. He is also the first to appoint the first female Chief Judge… I also appointed five women into my cabinet as governor.”
“We need to read; our reading culture in this part of the world is very low. People hardly read.
“Honestly, sometimes, I go into bookshops to buy books worth five hundred thousand just out of solidarity with the bookshop owners. I buy books to share out to Princes and contemporaries and not for myself, fundamentally out of solidarity.
“When you visit bookshops, you can hardly see two or three people. We can spend our budget buying very expensive Apple wristwatches and so on, but we hardly buy books.”
Ada Peter
