Nigeria’s former Senate Chief Whip and Senator representing Abia North Senatorial District, Orji Uzor Kalu has said Nigerian government needs more time to fix the problems of the country, in interest of the citizenry.
Senator Kalu stated this yesterday, while fielding questions from journalists, shortly after a new year homage to the Ebonyi State chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Stanley Okoro-Emegha at his county home, Ekoli- Edda.
Organise the economy
He called on Nigerians to give Federal Government more time to re-organise the economy of the country, even as the people currently pass through difficult times.
“People are suffering and we understand that. I want Nigerians to understand where the Federal Government is going. It is a period of transformation, for the APC government to get the economy fixed in the interest of our people,” Kalu emphasised.
Continuing, he said, “Nigerians should be patient with Federal Government and give two to three more years.The stage we are now is that president Tinubu is still cutting the cloth that he wants to sew, and you know that a cloth must be cut to shapes, for it to be well sewn.”
Kalu, a former governor of Abia State said that the president was focused and committed to the task of repositioning of Nigeria’s economy and making it work again, adding that he needed was time and patient on the part of the citizens.
On the 2024 budget, Senator Orji Kalu the National Assembly should not take the blamed for any lapses on the budget.
His words, “we said that we are going to do a census and Nigeria has put several billion in planning for the national census in 2023 and if we did not vote money for the conduct of the exercise, Nigeria will be losing about N289 billion.”
He further urged Nigerian youths to be agents of positive change by shunning all forms of social vices and acts capable of breaching the peace and security of the country, adding that no meaningful development could be achieved, when peace and security are lacking.
Lateefah Ibrahim
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