Why I stepped down from ITU Deputy Secretary-General race – Nigerian minister, Tijani

Nigeria’s Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani, has explained wherefore helium withdrew from the contention for the presumption of Deputy Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union, ITU.

The minister, successful a connection connected his LinkedIn page, noted that helium had decided against pursuing the relation aft “careful consideration” to absorption connected President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s transformative agenda.

According to him, the determination would alteration him to absorption connected and prioritise the responsibilities entrusted to him by the President successful the country’s integer economy.

“After cautious consideration, I person decided not to prosecute the accidental to contention for the presumption of Deputy Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union.

“The accidental was undoubtedly attractive, some personally and for Nigeria, arsenic it would person presented the historical imaginable of a Nigerian serving arsenic 1 of the ITU’s elected officials for the archetypal clip successful its 160-year history.

“My absorption volition truthful stay connected supporting President Tinubu’s transformative integer system docket and ensuring that these captious programmes present enduring worth for the radical of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” Tijani said.

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