‘Nigeria is not the only one’ – Gov Sule defends Tinubu’s UNGA absence

Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, has said President Bola Tinubu is not the lone satellite person who is not attending the 81st United Nations General Assembly successful New York.

Sule made the connection during a virtual interrogation with TVC, saying Nigeria’s diplomatic beingness astatine the planetary gathering remained beardown contempt the President’s absence.

Vice President Kashim Shettima is representing Tinubu astatine the General Assembly. He is starring Nigeria’s delegation and is expected to present the country’s nationalist connection connected Thursday.

Shettima has represented Tinubu astatine the UN General Assembly for the 3rd consecutive time, having attended connected the President’s behalf successful 2024 and 2025.

Speaking astir the President’s absence, Sule said galore countries had besides sent vice presidents, overseas ministers and different elder officials to correspond them.

He said, “I don’t deliberation I’m competent to talk astir the lack of our ain president, but I conscionable privation to marque it categorically wide that Nigeria is not the lone one.

“There are truthful galore different countries that are being represented by the vice president and, successful fact, immoderate by adjacent overseas ministers.

“It is the beingness of the state that is determination that is much important alternatively than the beingness of the caput of gover...