Vice President Kashim Shettima has told Nigerians to rest assured that President Bola Tinubu has the country in mind, noting that Nigeria is in the throes of economic hardships. He said the government is not apportioning blame as it is conscious that leadership is about accepting responsibilities and finding solutions to national challenges. Shettima stated these during the public presentation of the book entitled: “Beating All Odds: Diaries and Essays on How Bola Tinubu Became President”, written by the chairman, Editorial board of The Nation Newspaper, Sam Omatseye, in Abuja on Tuesday. He described President Tinubu as a man of courage and conviction who took far-reaching decisions within a week of office such as the removal of fuel subsidies and correction of multiple exchange rate regimes which had been the country’s major economic albatross.
He said, “The President is a man of courage and conviction. In the first week in office, he made far-reaching decisions. Oil subsidy has been an adventurous fang in the neck of the Nigerian economy and the Nigerian nation. He took the bull by the horns and withdrew the fuel subsidy from day one; he was able to correct the multiple exchange rates regime that gave room for a lot of hanky-panky, and rest assured that in the fullness of time, history will be kind to him.” He also described the 2023 general election as the most divisive in the history of the country, having widened Nigeria’s ethno-religious fault lines that were deliberately manipulated for political aims, but President Tinubu being the pan-Nigerian candidate emerged victorious. In the book, the Vice President said in “Beating All Odds,” Omatseye not only set out to share his diaries as a well-read political historian but has given the world a three-dimensional view of a Nigeria President Tinubu inherited, with brick after brick of elegant words, one profound essay after another.”
