Orji Uzor-Kalu has appealed to Nigerians to give President Bola Tinubu more time to fix the economy, acknowledging the hardships millions of Nigerians are going through.

Mr Kalu, a former Senate chief whip, spoke on Tuesday in Koli-Edda in Afikpo South LGA of Ebonyi when he paid a courtesy visit to Stanley Okoro-Emegha, the Ebonyi chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The former Abia governor said Mr Tinubu was working assiduously to reposition the country’s economy and restore its lost glory, adding that what was required was for the citizens to give the president time.

“The APC government is cutting the cloth into pieces. Before you sew a clothe, you will first cut it into pieces before you start sewing the clothe. So, Tinubu is busy cutting the clothe into pieces.

“So, give us another three years or two years. People are suffering. We understand that. Give us more two years for the clothe we want to sew to be sewn very well,” Mr Kalu said.

On the 2024 appropriation bill, Mr Kalu absolved the lawmakers of any blame on the budget.

“We said that we are going to do a census and Nigeria has put several billion in planning for the national census in 2023 and if we did not vote money for the conduct of the exercise, Nigeria will be losing about N289 billion,” he said.

Mr Kalu further urged youths to be agents of positive change by shunning all forms of social vices and acts capable of breaching the peace and security of the country. 

(NAN)