The Vice President’s Office has issued a statement strongly re­futing rumours of a potential conflict within the presidency.

Stanley Nkwocha, Senior Spe­cial Assistant to the President on Media and Communications and Vice President’s Spokesman, stat­ed that the Vice President was not attempting to denigrate the Pres­ident’s office, which Bola Tinubu currently holds.

The Vice President’s Office stated that reports from online sources were disturbing, partic­ularly in the light of remarks made by the Vice President on Thursday at the book launch of former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Jus­tice, Bello Adoke.

Shettima had described how Adoke and former Speaker of the House of Representatives Aminu Tambuwal persuaded ex-Presi­dent Goodluck Jonathan to halt his removal from office as gover­nor of Borno state.

Nkwocha called the allega­tions a misrepresentation of his principal, Senator Kashim Shettima, Nigeria’s Vice Pres­ident.

During the public presenta­tion of Mohammed Bello Adoke’s (SAN) book “OPL 245: The In­side Story of the $1.3 Billion Oil Block,” Shettima praised the au­thor for convincing then-Presi­dent Goodluck Jonathan to stop his removal from office.

The Vice President’s office stated that certain online news outlets and individuals have distorted the Vice President’s comments in order to further a malicious agenda, twisting his account of how the admin­istration of former President Goodluck Jonathan considered removing him from office—then as Governor of Borno State—at the height of the North East in­surgency.

According to Nkwocha, the sensational reporting, which removes the Vice President’s remarks from their proper context, deviates into fiction by drawing false parallels between his personal experience and the state of emergency declared in Rivers State, as well as the sub­sequent suspension of Governor Siminalayi Fubara by, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Re­public of Nigeria.

The VP’s reaction was as fol­lows: “We wish to state categor­ically that Vice President Shet­tima’s comments were made in the context of acknowledging the author’s professional conduct during his tenure as Attorney General of the Federation—a tribute to his public service re­cord.

“His remarks were histor­ical references to events from the Jonathan administration, intended as a discourse on Ni­geria’s constitutional evolution. They highlighted how complex federal-state tensions have been managed through legal mecha­nisms, as well as the country’s progress in this area.”