Vice President Kashim Shettima, has asked Nigerians to be fair in the assessment of President Bola Tinubu.
Shettima said this at a one-day town hall meeting organised by the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC), which held in Abuja on Friday.
The former Borno governor argued that the current economic challenges being faced in the country is not limited to only Nigeria, calling for support for his principal to turn things around.
“This is a man we need to rally round and support. Yes, our economy is going through turbulence but is it confined to Nigeria alone? Let’s take a global picture”, he said.
“Is any economy immune from the challenges of the times? So, I ask you to be fair to this poor man.
“There is no doubt that every thriving economy grows from the quality of reforms adopted to offer the people avenues to translate their business ideas into formidable enterprises”.
Addressing Tinubu stumbling on May 29, at the democracy day celebration in Abuja, Shettima said the president does not need to lift a bag of cement to prove that he is fit to generate ideas capable of fixing the country.
“We are not asking you not to question the eligibility of your president’s condition. But there is this mischievous vexation about the president’s health status,” Shettima said.
“We are not preparing for the Olympics, but an institution that builds on the superiority of ideas. But I dare to put it to you. The hallmark of true leadership is not the ability to lift a bag of cement, but the capacity to come up with robust ideas to solve a nation’s problems.”
