Vice President Kashim Shettima stepped before an APC rally crowd recently with a message his party clearly wants Nigerians to hold onto: the worst of the country's economic reset is behind us.
Shettima declared that the toughest phases of President Bola Tinubu's aggressive economic reform agenda are officially over. In his framing, the administration has done the hard, painful work, and what lies ahead is a next term defined by harvest, nationwide growth, and prosperity.
The timing of the statement is no accident. With political temperatures rising and Nigerians still feeling the squeeze of reform-era policies in their everyday lives, the Vice President is essentially asking the public to stay the course and trust that the turnaround is real.
Whether that message lands depends entirely on what ordinary Nigerians see at the market, in their bank accounts, and on the street. The harvest, as they say, is always in the future until it actually arrives.
Originally published by Premium Times.