The Senate President, Chief Godswill Akpabio has insisted
that Nigeria’s economy was already in disarray before President Bola Tinubu was
elected as the president in 2023.
He noted that the president was determined to fix the
economy and touch the lives of Nigerians irrespective of ethnic, religious or
party affiliations.
Akpabio who is the senator representing Akwa Ibom North West
Senatorial district disclosed this at Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State during his
Constituency Briefing/ Empowerment on Monday.
He said, “President Tinubu met a very bad condition on ground, nobody envied him, he said he was determined to change the situation, let us encourage him to change the situation. We believe that at the end of the day, we will move the country forward, he did it in Lagos before, and he will do it again in Nigeria, just give him time he will take us to our El Dorado.
“I want us to know that Nigeria was on life support when the
people voted Tinubu to become the president. One day I asked him, Mr President,
after becoming the president and seeing the level of economy that Emefiele left
behind, are you excited? He said, well, I’m determined to change the
situation.”
Akpabio also noted that the president has touched many lives
through continuous constituency projects across the country, adding that the
regional commissions set up across the country were aimed at the development of
the regions and empowerment of the people.
He further claimed that President Tinubu has shown so much
love to the South East by giving them a key ministry, the Ministry of Works to
them and signing the South East Development Commission into an act of
parliament even as he explained that every other regional development
commission would be signed in no distant time.
His words, “The president has shown the South East love, he
has signed the South East Development Commission into an act of parliament, in
addition, key ministries have been allocated, not on the basis of votes but on
the NEEDS basis. The South East has a lot of ecological problems, the South
East has very poor roads, just like the South South and Mr president decided to
give us the Ministry of Works in addition to other key Ministries even the
petroleum and gas ministry. Akwa Ibom is sitting on gas, all the way from
Utapete down to Ibeno. Above all, the president, allowed our State to produce
the No. 3 Citizen, the Senate President, the last time we had such an
opportunity was in 1979. President Tinubu deserves all our support.”
“I want to appreciate the governor of Akwa Ibom State, His
Excellency, Pastor Umo Eno, without peace there will not be development, the
governor has decided to embrace all Akwa Ibom people irrespective of political
lines even during Christmas.
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