Vice President Kashim Shettima, on Thursday, referred to as on Nigerians to rally round President Bola Tinubu as he works to handle the nation’s socio-political, financial, and safety challenges.
Shettima spoke in Abuja on Thursday on the launch of a guide titled ‘Navigating the Politics of Universal Education Policies in Nigeria’ authored by Prof Modupe Adelabu, a retired professor of Educational Administration on the Department of Educational Management on the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.
Shettima assured Nigerians that the advantages of the robust measures being applied would quickly be evident.
The Vice President emphasised that the main target shouldn’t be on lamenting the nation’s previous or current difficulties however on discovering options to the core challenges.
The Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, Chief Bisi Akande, Chief Pius Akinyelure, Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, in addition to former Ekiti governors – Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo, Kayode Fayemi, the Mandate Secretary of the Federal Capital Territory on Health Services and Environment, Adedolapo Fasawe, former and serving lawmakers, conventional rulers, and trade leaders have been in attendance on the guide launch.
Shettima mentioned: “In President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, we’ve a pacesetter that we are able to make investments our belief in. I’m not enjoying politics, I’m talking from the center. I’ve seen the soul of Bola Tinubu, and he has an excellent soul.
“He means properly for the nation. He needs to dwell in a spot of glory. He is just not in energy to have interaction in primitive capital accumulation. He is in energy to go away landmarks within the sands of time. He is probably the most demonised politician in Nigeria. The first time I went to his home at Bourdillon, I used to be trying ahead to seeing a mansion similar to the Buckingham Palace, with gardens, and swimming swimming pools, however there was nothing particular about that home. My home in Maiduguri is healthier than the home in Bourdillon.
“And on the formative stage of the APC, we held a gathering in his home. They served us quite a lot of meals however he opted to take garri with groundnut for lunch. Since I’ve identified him, he has been utilizing just one wristwatch, and in reality, I gown higher than him. He doesn’t even care. He has overcome all these odds to decorate properly. So we have to rally round this poor man. He has taken some daring steps. The financial system that we met was in an enormous mess.
“But it wasn’t for us, we were part of the Buhari administration, we cannot deny that. We belong to the political family. It’s not about apportioning blame, but it’s about finding solutions to our nation’s needs. We knew there were challenges. Forget about the politics being played by the Atiku Abubakar and the obedient crowd, they all said they are going to withdraw the fuel subsidy.”
The VP mentioned the financial system was now on a path to sustained development.
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“The President had the braveness, the political braveness, and the willpower to take far-reaching selections, and it all the time comes at a value. When a girl is about to offer start, it’s a really painful course of however after the kid has come forth, it’s a trigger for celebration. I consider that posterity might be very sort to this poor man.
“He has taken far-reaching selections, and the financial system, we’ve crossed the river. The financial system is now on a path to maintain development. We are actually exporting about 1.7 million barrels of oil per day, the naira is stabilising in opposition to the greenback, and with the meals safety disaster that’s confronting us, we can’t divorce ourselves from the realities within the international area.
“It’s not a localised phenomenon but ours was further compounded by the security challenges in the traditional food basket of the country, the North Central, and the North-West but the security issues will be addressed, and be rest assured that in the coming months, Nigerians will see a sea of change in their fortunes. I want to ask all of us to rally around this poor man.”
Expressing concern through the years of neglect in primary training throughout northern Nigeria, Shettima highlighted the troubling involvement of underage kids within the current nationwide governance protests.
He attributed this example to the breakdown of household values and a dysfunctional household system, the place dad and mom more and more battle to manage their kids.
In mild of those challenges, the Vice President supported the views of Senator Olubunmi Ajetunmbi, a discussant on the occasion, who proposed that improvement commissions, significantly the North East Development Commission and the newly authorized North West Development Commission, needs to be mandated by state devices to deal with the problems plaguing primary training, significantly the out-of-school kids disaster within the area.
The VP agreed that the commissions needs to be given a transparent timeline to cut back and in the end curb this rising drawback.
While noting that the monetary autonomy granted to native councils presents new hope for bettering primary training, he, nevertheless, clarified that governors weren’t the villains they’re typically portrayed to be regarding native council funds.
He urged stakeholders within the training sector and native council administrations to collaborate with governors to successfully tackle the challenges within the training system.
Discussing the guide, Adetunmbi highlighted the alarming determine of 17.8 million out-of-school kids in Nigeria, with 13.1 million of them within the northern area.
He burdened that this difficulty was not solely a risk to nationwide safety but in addition a looming human assets and financial catastrophe if left unaddressed.
Adetunmbi argued that this predictable problem might be proactively managed via strategic measures, together with laws, a nationwide dialogue on primary training, decentralisation, and the domestication of training insurance policies to satisfy the precise wants of every area.
A former minister, Bolaji Abdullahi, famous that the Universal Basic Education Commission legislation wanted to be reviewed to increase its scope past merely offering funds for infrastructure, suggesting it must also deal with enhancing the standard of training.
On her half, Erelu Bisi Fayemi added that training insurance policies ought to now not be gender-blind, advocating for measures to make sure that ladies have entry to high quality and inexpensive training by offering them with the required assets and eradicating limitations to their instructional development.
The guide’s writer, Adelabu, defined that her 197-page, nine-chapter guide was impressed by the inseparable hyperlink between training and politics.
She emphasised the necessity to use political energy to galvanise high quality, accessible training for all.