‘THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF KNOWS THAT NIGERIANS ARE SUFFERING AND HUNGRY HE KNOWS THE STREET VERY WELL.’ — KALU

The senator representing Abia North Senatorial District, Orji Kalu has claimed that President Bola Tinubu move around the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja to access the situation and hardship the citizens are currently dealing with in his administration.
The lawmaker and a chieftain of the ruling All Progressive Congress revealed this on Thursday’s edition of Channels Television’s Politics Today:
“The president himself knows that Nigerians are suffering and hungry. He is a street person; he knows the street very well.
“The president some nights uses his car to go around and know what is happening in Abuja here.
“He is not a president that is locked in a hole. He is not a president who does not know what is going on. Whether there are kidnappings or not, he goes around with one or two cars,” Kalu asserted
The senator acknowledged that while the current economic difficulties have impacted many Nigerians, the problem is not peculiar to Nigeria alone.
He pointed out that global economic challenges are affecting nations worldwide, but reassured Nigerians that the government is actively working to reform the economy.
“Let me be honest; I know things have not been the way they are supposed to be. The economy has not been so friendly. This economic problem is going on almost everywhere in the world,” Kalu stated.
The interview came barely two days after the country’s Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima admitted that some of the policies the government implemented so far had caused Nigerians pain, but he and his principal, President Bola Tinubu, had no options.
The Vice President had said this in Abuja during the 30th anniversary of the Nigerian Economic Summit while defending the current administration’s economic policies and highlighting steps taken by the government to improve the economy.
“Some of the policy decisions, the policy options available are painful, but they are almost inevitable,” Shettima had said. 
He continued: “My heart and the heart of President Bola Tinubu go to the Nigerian people. We empathize with what the poor and the young are going through in the Nigerian nation but we have no option.
“Some of these decisions are unpopular but the truth is most often the truth that men prepare not to hear.” The stated.

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