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Vice-President Kashim Shettima has stated that the current istration will not blame the istration of former President Muhammadu Buhari for the challenges it encountered after…

Vice-President Kashim Shettima has stated that the current istration will not blame the istration of former President Muhammadu Buhari for the challenges it encountered after taking over.

Speaking during the second Chronicle Roundtable, organised by the 21st Century Chronicle, the VP said this is the most difficult time to occupy political leadership in Nigeria due to the challenges facing the country.

He said the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu decided to take a bitter pill for the country instead of settling for a placebo.

“The president chose the option that will save the lives of the people instead of the ones that will lead to the prolong the economic death. We will not resort to put the blame on previous istration as leadership is about courage, continuity.”

“Before we took charge, the biggest elephant in the room was about fuel subsidy removal. It was an albatross round the neck of the nation for the past 20 to 30 years. We understood why our predecessor decided to remove subsidy because there were no sufficient budget for it in the fiscal year.

“A year before we took office, Nigeria’s debt service to revenue ratio had grown to 111.18 percent. It was an economic death sentence. To be plain to us, our debt service was that if you earn N100,000, you are forced to borrow an additional N11,800 to pay the debtor. How do we intend to survive this? It will be long before we become a pariah.”

He added that the subsidy has led to diversion of resources from critical sectors and laced with corruption masterminded by subsidy regime.

“We have to jettison the subsidy regime, it was a bitter pill to swallow but we had to do it.”

On the economy reforms it is carrying out, he said: “A presidential candidate in the last election, eager to mock our economic trajectory once pointed Argentina as a model to Nigeria and became an overnight market specialist. He was convinced that we have missed our way and should have adopted the ways of our friends in South America.

“Barely two weeks, we watched as Argentina’s inflation rate surged. We respect what the [/b]president is doing there but governance is not photocopying.”

He said the intervention of CBN and NSA to neutralise influential currency manipulators that have conspired to frustrate its reforms led to the saving of the Naira.

[b]“Today, I stand proud to say that our intervention has translated into desirable goals. Naira speculators were projecting that the Naira will go as far as N5,000 to the dollar. Some bought the dollar at the rate of N2,000 from banks.

Speaking earlier, the Chairman of the occasion, Dr. Shamsudeen Usman, said the government need to ensure it proves the economic situation as there are lots of people who are not wishing the country well.

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“A year before we took office, Nigeria’s debt service to revenue ratio had grown to 111.18 percent. It was an economic death sentence. To be plain to us, our debt service was that if you earn N100,000, you are forced to borrow an additional N11,800 to pay the debtor. How do we intend to survive this?”

Blaming Buhari's istration already.

Because you were all part of Buhari's failure.

Watin this one dey yarn again?, then blame Peter OBI for Tinubu/ Shettima incompetence and failures

Between 2015 and 2023, it was blame game on PDP, now that the Barton exchanged between APC and APC, who should receive the blame?

So you know you people have failed woefully

Rather we'll blame Obi and Obidents.

That's why their rats will always ask you "did Obi give Anambra 24/7 electricity? Did Obi strengthen the value of the Naira?"
As if Obi is their sleeping president.

Na una sabi

Blame Obi we beg you.
We Obidients enjoy your blame game.
Your mo.ronic urchin ers are always entertaining us here with Obi this, Obi that.

Your tenure never reach after 1 year, you don dey hammer failure on top your government. And of course, blaming Buhari would mean APC has failed beyond failure. So, why should APC blame APC for its self inflicted failure?

Hehehe! APC wants to blame APC? Perhaps they don't understand the implications of being in government. Same people that blamed Jonathan that was far better than Buhari for 8 years now can't don't deemed it fit to blame Buhari? Wicked souls. Stupid sophisticated hypocritical morons.

Zxcvbnmghtr:

Call Peter Obi! Abi Peter Obi is not responsible for the failures and mess the APC have wrought in the last 9 years?

Hmm

He has foreclosed any propaganda opportunity for Agbado to blame buhari for Tinubu failure…so now Agbado can continue blaming Peter Obi for the total failure of their incompetent messaih

Hahaha

But you ers online are blaming Peter Obi for Tinubu's failure.

This I have seen.

so is it me they want to blame?

abeg they should not blame anyone, they should just fix the economy

who doesn't know Buhari was a disaster

Hmmm

Well, still waiting on Dangote.

But the government should know that dangote won't sell cheap. So, do they have adequate socio-economic policies in place to not only cushion the effect for the masses, but also place the country on an upward trajectory?

Make una continue we go soon burn everything down

Confused people!

omoh..........i lyk people wen dey talk truth.
tnk God u knw say una be failure pro max

Who will you blame?

Giringori Obi abi?

SpecialAdviser:
Blame Obi we beg you.
We Obidients enjoy your blame game.
Your mo.ronic urchin ers are always entertaining us here with Obi this, Obi that.

don't mind this Uselesss corrupt APC . Shettima is indirectly blaming Buhari
Confused incompetent APC people

Ok then
Blame Frederick John Lugard

After they will blame Peter obi for their failures

So you know that you are failures..it's a pity

Dangote Has Lost 46% of his Wealth since APC Took Office.

While Other Billionaires Have Doubled or Even Tripled Their Wealth, Every Single Month For The past 9 Years, Dangote Has Become Poorer.

By The Time Tinubu Finishes His Tenure, Dangote May No Longer Have Billionaire sSatus.

What did you expect from a president that the only thing he could tell nigerians during his presidential campaign that....it's my turn