Vice President Kashim Shettima has said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was making courageous but difficult decisions aimed at engineering an economy that works for the Nigerian people.
He disclosed this on Wednesday during the 15th Mechanical Engineering Distinguished Lecture (MEDL) at the Shehu Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja.
The Vice President likened the art of governance to the dexterity of engineers who work with machines and structures to transform theories into measurable outcomes.
He stated: “His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is himself a man of numbers. An accountant extraordinaire, a thinker grounded in the discipline of evidence, and a leader governed by the clarity of facts.
“He understands the peril of building policies on the sands of assumption. He knows, as you do, that the nation cannot move forward without accurate measurement of its revenues, its deficits, and its prospects.”
Shettima noted that the theme of the Lecture, “The Imperative of Engineering Strategies for the Planning of National Budget,” aligned with the thinking being institutionalised by the Tinubu administration, which he said was not just budgeting for survival but also for transformation and reality.
According to him, We are budgeting for transformation. We are building systems that speak to productivity, to sustainability, and to prosperity.
For President Tinubu, the Vice President said, it is the “fidelity to facts that has guided his difficult but necessary decisions to fix the Nigerian economy.”
“From confronting the longstanding subsidy regime that had become an enduring shackle around the nation’s ambitions, to facing the grim realities of a debt-to-revenue ratio that threatened the very foundation of our fiscal stability.
“These are not decisions of convenience. They are decisions of courage. They are born of a commitment to engineer a nation that works for its people,” Shettima said.