Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has urged President Tinubu to convene an urgent meeting to tackle Nigeria’s present economic hardship.
Chairman of, the Senate Committee on Privatisation, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has urged President Bola Tinubu to convene an emergency session with his economic team to develop strategies to promptly address the current severe economic difficulties in the country.
Kalu, representing Abia North Senatorial District, voiced this call on Tuesday during an interaction with reporters at the federal parliament.
The ex-governor of Abia State-linked the current hardship to the elimination of fuel subsidy but emphasized that it was the necessary path forward.
He suggested that the federal government should develop economic strategies to improve the living conditions of the less privileged in society.
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“Even in my village, everywhere I go, companies, everybody, there is hardship, but I appeal to the federal government, the president to know how he can bring succor quickly to the people of Nigeria.
“He has to do something, not yesterday, but today. He must do something like yesterday because the condition of the Nigerian people is not too good.
“I believe that no president in the world elected by people would want his people to suffer. I’m not in the economic team, I have not seen the president or anyone to ask but this is what (return of subsidy) has caused.
“The president has to sit with his economic team to discuss, but the decisions he has taken are what no president in the 60 years of the republic, no president has been able to take that decision.
“The hardship is true, people are suffering. We have hundreds of thousands of workers, we have about 10,000 workers in our group that we run.”
