By our correspondent
The Vice President, Kashim Shettima, has assured Nigerians that President Bola Tinubu’s led government would neither deny the challenges in the country or apportion blames, but rather accept responsibility and find solutions to the prevailing social-economic hardship and other myriad of challenges bedevilling them.
Shettima asserted this Tuesday, while speaking at the launch of a book launch, titled “Beating all Odds: Diaries and Essays on how Bola Tinubu became President”, written by Sam Omatseye, Chairperson of the Editorial Board of The Nation Newspaper, in Abuja.
He described Tinubu as a bold man with strong conviction, who “took the bull by the horns”, by withdrawing the fuel subsidy and collapsing the multiple exchange rates regime.
“Be rest assured that the President has Nigeria in his mind. Yes, we are having challenges, we are not denying that, and we are not here to apportion blames. Leadership is about accepting responsibilities and finding solutions to national challenges. The President is a man of courage and conviction. In the first one week in office, he took far-reaching decisions.
“Oil subsidy had been an albatross around the neck of the Nigerian economy and the Nigerian nation. He took the bull by the horn and withdrew the fuel subsidy from day one.
“He was able to collapse the multiple exchange rate regime, that gave room for a lot of hanky-panky. And be rest assured that in the fullness of time, history will be kind to him”, the Vice President stressed.
In his goodwill message, Senate President Godswill Akpabio, hailed the qualities of the President outlined in the book, and enjoined Nigerians to support the President as he strove.
Akpabio, who was represented by the Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate, Peter Nwebonyi (Ebonyi North), said: “As the President faces governance, which is the stage which we are in currently, may I crave the indulgence of all Nigerians and all arms of government, to give him all the support he desires to succeed.
“With the agenda of Renewed Hope, our commitment to our national duty, and perseverance, I am convinced that we shall eventually reach the promised land.”
Others who graced the event include; former Governor of Ogun State, and Chairman of the Occasion, Olusegun Osoba; Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike; former National Chairman of the APC and Senator representing Edo North Senatorial District, Adams Oshiomhole; former Governors of Delta, and Lagos States, James Ibori and Babatunde Fashola, and among others.
