{"id":168435,"date":"2025-07-05T07:52:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T06:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/bitterness-wont-bring-shettima-down-presidency-responds"},"modified":"2025-07-05T08:58:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T07:58:05","slug":"bitterness-wont-bring-shettima-down-presidency-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bitterness-wont-bring-shettima-down-presidency-responds","title":{"rendered":"Bitterness Won\u2019t Bring Shettima Down Presidency Responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Presidency has fired back at Dr. Datti Baba-Ahmed, the 2023 Labour Party vice-presidential candidate, accusing him of being gripped by obsession and bitterness over Vice President Kashim Shettima\u2019s political journey and rising profile.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Friday, Stanley Nkwocha, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media &amp; Communications (Office of the Vice President), said Datti\u2019s latest remarks were unprovoked, desperate, and steeped in envy.<\/p>\n<p>This was in response to Datti\u2019s appearance on Arise News where he questioned why President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has not removed Shettima from office.<\/p>\n<p>The Presidency described the comments as not only baseless but also a reflection of Datti\u2019s own political frustrations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnlike the picture of a desperado that Datti attempted to paint of VP Shettima, this Vice President is a perfect story of democratic credentials\u2014untainted and never involved in election rigging. In fact, he has never lost an election,\u201d Nkwocha\u2019s statement read.<\/p>\n<p>He praised Shettima\u2019s record, noting that the VP has been a loyal, effective second-in-command to President Tinubu and remains a trusted partner in governance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis loyalty to President Tinubu is unwavering and total,\u201d the statement added, \u201ca trait that the President deeply values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nkwocha also challenged Datti\u2019s moral authority to critique the Vice President, recalling how the former senator was removed from the National Assembly by court ruling in 2011 for alleged electoral fraud in favour of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who rigged elections and were sent packing by the courts should not attempt to moralise. Datti\u2019s bitterness stems from personal political failure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Shettima delivered Borno for his party, Datti couldn\u2019t even secure a second-place finish for the Labour Party in Kaduna.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Presidency has fired back at Dr. Datti Baba-Ahmed, the 2023 Labour Party vice-presidential candidate, accusing him of being gripped by obsession and bitterness over Vice President Kashim Shettima\u2019s political journey and rising profile. In a statement issued on Friday, Stanley Nkwocha, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media &amp; Communications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":168433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[6770,254,158,1837],"class_list":["post-168435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-baba-ahmed","tag-nigeria","tag-presidency","tag-shettima"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bitterness Won\u2019t Bring Shettima Down Presidency Responds - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Presidency has fired back at Dr. Datti Baba-Ahmed, the 2023 Labour Party vice-presidential candidate, accusing him o ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bitterness-wont-bring-shettima-down-presidency-responds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bitterness Won\u2019t Bring Shettima Down Presidency Responds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Presidency has fired back at Dr. Datti Baba-Ahmed, the 2023 Labour Party vice-presidential candidate, accusing him o ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bitterness-wont-bring-shettima-down-presidency-responds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-05T06:52:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-05T07:58:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751689760.315687.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1556\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1084\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bitterness-wont-bring-shettima-down-presidency-responds#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bitterness-wont-bring-shettima-down-presidency-responds\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Bitterness Won\u2019t Bring Shettima Down Presidency Responds\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-05T06:52:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-05T07:58:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bitterness-wont-bring-shettima-down-presidency-responds\"},\"wordCount\":306,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bitterness-wont-bring-shettima-down-presidency-responds#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751689760.315687.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"baba ahmed\",\"Nigeria\",\"Presidency\",\"Shettima\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bitterness-wont-bring-shettima-down-presidency-responds#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bitterness-wont-bring-shettima-down-presidency-responds\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bitterness-wont-bring-shettima-down-presidency-responds\",\"name\":\"Bitterness Won\u2019t Bring Shettima Down Presidency Responds - 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