Senator Orji Kalu has said that President Bola Tinubu is fully aware of the economic hardship Nigerians are going through and is taking measures to address the situation.
Speaking on Thursday, October 17, on Channels Television’s Politics Today, the lawmaker who stated that Tinubu is in touch with the sufferings of the masses, added “the president himself knows that Nigerians are suffering and hungry. He is a street person; he knows the street very well”.
Kalu went further to explain that the president sometimes personally observes the situation by driving around the capital. “The president some nights uses his car to go around and know what is happening in Abuja here,” Kalu added.
Speaking of the state of the Nigeria’s economy, Kalu argued that the economic hardship is not unique to Nigeria, maintaining that many nations are still feeling the aftershocks of the COVID-19 pandemic. “The impact of COVID-19 is still affecting economies globally,” he said.
According to the lawmaker, the reason other countries may not feel the economic strain as intensely as Nigeria is due to their longstanding economic stability. “The only reason some countries are no longer feeling the COVID-19 impact the way Nigeria is feeling it is because they have built a robust economy for a very long period,” Kalu explained.
