Tinubu administration pushes economic shift in Nigeria's South-East

Vice President Kashim Shettima said the administration of President Bola Tinubu is engineering a pivotal economic and security shift in Nigeria's South-East through aggressive capital injections into transport, green energy, agriculture, housing and human capital development.

Speaking at an All Progressives Congress presidential campaign rally in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State capital, Shettima said the Tinubu administration had demonstrated its commitment to the state through major infrastructure projects, federal appointments and policies aimed at improving citizens' welfare.

“If any state can speak with confidence about the dividends of democracy, it is Ebonyi.”

He said government interventions in Ebonyi State and the wider South-East are designed to improve regional connectivity, strengthen food security, expand economic opportunities and address longstanding development challenges that have constrained the region's economic potential.

Shettima identified the Calabar–Ebonyi–Benue–Kogi–Nasarawa–Abuja Superhighway, part of the administration's Trans-Saharan highway vision, as a major ongoing infrastructure investment.

The Vice President said public office imposes an obligation to deliver measurable improvements in people's lives and that the administration's development programmes reflect its determination to honour the confidence reposed in it by Nigerians.

Calling the campaign a season of triumph, Shettima said the government had answered supporters with projects and that President Tinubu had honoured Ebonyi through distinguished appointments and projects across the state.

Shettima said democracy demands the humility of asking again and that the administration had returned to seek the renewal of Ebonyi's mandate to serve, defend and stand by the state.