His Excellency Kashim Shettima GCON
Shettima in 2023
15th Vice President of Nigeria
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 May 2023
President	Bola Tinubu
Preceded by	Yemi Osinbajo
Senator for Borno Central
In office 11 June 2019 – 29 May 2023
Preceded by	Baba Kaka Bashir Garbai
Succeeded by	Kaka Shehu Lawan
Governor of Borno State
In office 29 May 2011 – 29 May 2019
Deputy	Zannnah Mustapha Usman Durkwa
Preceded by	Ali Modu Sheriff
Succeeded by	Babagana Zulum
Personal details
Born	Kashim Shettima Mustapha (1966-09-02) 2 September 1966 Maiduguri, Northern Region, Nigeria (now in Borno State)
Political party	All Progressives Congress (2013–present)
Other political affiliations	All Nigeria Peoples Party (1999–2013)
Spouse	Nana Usman Alkali ​ (m. 1998)​
Children	3
Residence	Akinola Aguda House
Alma mater	University of Maiduguri University of Ibadan
Occupation	Politician banker
Awards	List of honours and awards
Website	Campaign website State House website

Kashim Shettima Mustapha GCON (born 2 September 1966) is a Nigerian politician who is the 15th and current vice president of Nigeria.^[1][2] He previously served as senator for Borno Central from 2019 to 2023, and as the governor of Borno State from 2011 to 2019.^[3]

Born in Maiduguri in 1966, Shettima graduated from the University of Maiduguri and the University of Ibadan. After schooling, he entered business and banking, eventually rising to hold several high-ranking executive positions at banks. By the mid-2000s, Shettima was the manager of Zenith Bank's Maiduguri branch before leaving the position to enter the state cabinet of Governor Ali Modu Sheriff in 2007. After four years in the cabinet, he was elected governor in 2011 and re-elected by a wider margin in 2015; his term in office was dominated by the deadly Boko Haram insurgency. Shettima left office in 2019, and was elected to the senate. Despite being renominated for Senate in 2023, he withdrew from the nomination to become Bola Tinubu's running mate. Kaka-Shehu Lawan replaced him as the senate nominee.^[4]

Family

Kashim Shettima was born into the family of Shettima Mustafa Kuttayibe on 2 September 1966 in Maiduguri, then Northern Region. He is married to Nana Shettima, and they have three children.^[5]

Education

Shettima attended Lamisula Primary School in Maiduguri from 1972 to 1978; Government Community Secondary School, Biu in southern part of Borno State from 1978 to 1980; transferred to Government Science Secondary School, Potiskum (now in neighbouring Yobe State) where he completed his secondary education in 1983. He studied at the University of Maiduguri and earned a Degree (BSc) in Agricultural Economics in 1989.^[6] He had his one-year compulsory membership of the National Youths Service Corps, NYSC, at the defunct Nigerian Agricultural Cooperative Bank, Calabar, capital of Cross River State in South-South, Nigeria, from 1989 to 1990. He obtained a master's degree (MSc) in Agricultural Economics in 1991 at the University of Ibadan in Southwest, Nigeria. Shettima joined the University of Maiduguri as a Lecturer with the Department of Agricultural Economics and was in the academia from 1991 to 1993.^[7]

Early career

In 1993, he moved into the banking sector and was employed by (now defunct) Commercial Bank of Africa Limited as head of accounts unit at the bank's office in Ikeja, Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria. Shettima was there from 1993 to 1997. In 1997, he crossed over to the African International Bank Limited as a Deputy Manager and rose to become a Manager in 2001. In 2001, he moved to the Zenith Bank as head of its main branch in Maiduguri. At the Zenith Bank, he rose to Senior Manager/Branch Head; Assistant General Manager (AGM)/Zonal Head (North-East), Deputy General Manager/Zonal Head (North-East) before he stepped out of the Zenith Bank as a General Manager in 2007 following his appointment as Commissioner for Finance in Borno State.^[8]

Shettima worked with the Commercial Bank of Africa as an Agricultural Economist at its Ikeja Office, Lagos State (1993-1997). He then became a deputy manager, later manager, at the African International Bank Limited, Kaduna Branch (1997–2001), and was appointed Deputy Manager/Branch Head of the Zenith Bank's Maiduguri Office in 2001, becoming General Manager five years later. In mid-2007, Shettima was appointed Commissioner of the Borno State Ministry of Finance and Economic Development.^[9] Later he became Commissioner in the Ministries of Local Governments and Chieftaincy Affairs, Education, Agriculture and later Health under his predecessor as Borno Governor Ali Modu Sheriff.^[10]

Political career

From 2007 to 2011, he served as Commissioner in 5 Ministries.^[11] In the January 2011 ANPP primaries, Engineer Modu Fannami Gubio was selected as candidate for the governorship. However, Gubio was later shot dead by gunmen, and Shettima was selected in a second primary in February 2011.^[12] In the 26 April 2011 elections, Shettima won with 531,147 votes while the People's Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Muhammed Goni, gained 450,140 votes.^[13]

Shettima emerged the 2014 Governor of the Year (Leadership, Governor of the Year, 2015, (Nigeria Union of Journalists, national body); Governor of the Year, 2015 (NewsWatchTimes n); Governor of the Year, 2015 (Vanguard newspapers); Governor of the Year, 2016 (Tell magazine; 2017 Zik Prize for Leadership; Kaduna Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Award for courage and exceptional leadership (2017), FCT NUJ Merit Award for exceptional Leadership, 2017.^[14][15]

In February 2019, he became the winner of the Borno Central Senatorial District election, thereby replacing Senator Babakaka Bashir.^[16]

Vice Presidency (2023–present)

Seal of the vice-president.

On 1 March 2023, Bola Tinubu was confirmed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the winner of the presidential election. Thus, Shettima became the Vice President-elect of Nigeria.^[17] They were both sworn in on 29 May 2023.

Shettima assumed office after taking the oath of office on 29 May 2023 at the Eagle Square, Abuja. As the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, he is expected to oversee the economic planning team and report as well as make recommendations to the president who takes the final decision.

Honours

•  Nigeria:
  • Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON) (25 May 2023)

See also

• List of governors of Borno State

References