Vice President Kashim Shettima has said the difficult but very crucial decisions taken by the administration of President Bola Tinubu are targeted at engineering an economy that works for the Nigerian people.
According to him, like engineers who must rely on the power of numbers with consummate exactitude, efficiency, and alignment, the administration is taking accurate measurement of revenues, deficits and prospects to move the nation forward.
The vice president who spoke Wednesday during the 15th Mechanical Engineering Distinguished Lecture (MEDL) at the Shehu Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja, likened the art of governance to the dexterity of engineers who work with machines and structures to transform theories into measurable outcomes.
He said: “President Bola 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”.
Reflecting on the theme of the Lecture, “The Imperative of Engineering Strategies for the Planning of National Budget,” Shettima said it aligns with the thinking being institutionalised by the Tinubu administration, which he said is not just budgeting for survival but also for transformation and reality.
“We are budgeting for transformation. We are building systems that speak to productivity, to sustainability, and to prosperity,” he added.
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.
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