IN the early hours of Wednesday, March 1, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, winner of Saturday’s presidential election.

The Chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, announced the final result at exactly 4:10 am, after days of collating results from across the 36 states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

Tinubu polled 8,794,726 votes to defeat his closest rivals, Abubakar Atiku of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who got 6,984,520 votes and Labour Party (LP) candidate Peter Obi, who scored 6,101,533 votes.

Tinubu did not run the race alone; he ran with Kashim Shettima as his running mate.

Shettima is a former governor of Borno State in Nigeria’s North-West.

Here are some things to know about the Vice – President-elect.

Educational background
Shettima, now vice president-elect of Nigeria, was born on September 2, 1966.

He attended Lamisula Primary School in Maiduguri from 1972 to 1978 before transferring to Government Community Secondary School, Biu, in Southern Borno, where he spent the following two years, from 1978 to 1980.

After that, he relocated to the Government Science Secondary School in Potiskum, where he completed his secondary education in 1983.

Shettima thereafter attended the University of Maiduguri, where he obtained a Degree (BSc) in Agricultural Economics in 1989.

He did his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) at the defunct Nigerian Agricultural Cooperative Bank, Calabar, Cross River, from 1989 to 1990.

Furthermore, he obtained a Master’s Degree (MSc) in Agricultural Economics at the University of Ibadan in 1991.

Shettima worked as a lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Maiduguri from 1991 to 1993.

Banking career
Shettima joined the banking sector in 1993, where he worked for the now-defunct Commercial Bank of Africa as head of accounts.

In 1997 he moved to the African International Bank (AIB) Limited as a Deputy Manager. He rose to become a Manager.

He also worked at Zenith Bank as head of its main Maiduguri Branch.

At Zenith Bank, he rose to various Senior Managerial positions before he left the bank as a General Manager in 2007.

READ MORE HERE: https://www.icirnigeria.org/kashim-shettima-behold-nigerias-incoming-vice-president/

Handsome and Brainy Patriot!
You deserve the victory and I am very proud of you.
God bless you sir.
Congrats to my VP-elect and your beautiful wife.

Lest I forget, please we need to investigate all the massively fraudulently rigged Agulu results from Igboland o. Results where even the votes of PDP and APC agents who voted APC/PDP and signed the result on behalf of their parties got their votes fraudently recorded as zero in Agulu results.
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