Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, has applauded Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo’s contributions to nation-building, saying he has helped in fostering unity and strengthening Nigeria’s political, economic, and social institutions with his practical commentaries on the state of the nation.
He described Prof. Soludo as a man of ideas and honour who, despite coming into office at a time when many politicians had started mortgaging integrity for relevance and sowing seeds of discord, has remained committed to national growth and development.
Shettima who stated this on Tuesday when he represented President Bola Tinubu at the inauguration and swearing-in of Governor and his deputy, Dr. Onyekachukwu Ibezim, for a second term in Awka, the Anambra State capital, noted that the President’s policies have benefited immensely from Soludo’s constructive advice.
“The policies of His Excellency, President Bola Tinubu have benefited from the candour, specialist insight, and patriotic counsel of this distinguished economist, this restless thinker, this public intellectual of uncommon range, both in open fora and in private conversations. And that is how it should be.
“That is what it means to be in the business of nation-building. It means placing the welfare of the federation above the vanity of partisan fences. It means understanding that Nigeria is too precious a vessel to be abandoned to the storms simply because the rowers wear different colours,” he stated.