By Abbanobi – Eku Onyekachi
The representative of Abia North Senatorial District of Abia State in Nigeria’s 10th Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, has appealed to Nigerians to be patient with President Bola Tinubu’s administration in its economic reforms, saying that as strives to revitalize the country’s economy.
Speaking to the Senate Press Corps (APC) on Tuesday at the National Assembly, Senator Kalu acknowledged the economic challenges facing Nigerians and urged them to give President Tinubu more time to implement the said economic reforms.
A former chief whip of the Senate and governor of Abia State, Kalu expressed confidence in President Tinubu’s efforts to reposition the economy and restore its former strength.
Praising the president for courage, Kalu said: “The reforms underway are unprecedented in the last sixty years. No president has demonstrated such courage as President Tinubu. The reformations going on now have never happened in the last sixty years. No president, no president as I’m telling you has the courage to do what president Tinubu is doing now,” he stated.
“It is about courage; the man is very courageous, in fact if I’m the president, what he is doing now to reform the economy taking everything together I may not do it,” he said, even as he
also appealed to President Tinubu and his economic team to quickly do find immediate solutions to the suffering and hardship of Nigerians.
Reacting to the recent rumor of his death while abroad, Senator Kalu said there was nothing wrong with him, explains that he took permission from the Senate President to study at a particular University outside the country.
“There was nothing wrong with me. I took permission from the Senate President, about seven days before the Senate close, I went to US for a little studies in one of the Universities. I paid for myself, not that anybody paid for me.
“I used the holiday period to do the courses in that University about democracy and the position of the economy. I did not die; I didn’t even go for any medical or anything at all”, Kalu explained.
