Nigeria was on life support before Tinubu became president – Akpabio

The Senate President, Chief Godswill Akpabio, emphasized that Nigeria’s economy was already in chaos prior to President Bola Tinubu’s election in 2023.

He highlighted the president’s commitment to improving the economy and uplifting the lives of all Nigerians regardless of their ethnicity, religion, or political affiliation.

Akpabio, the senator for Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial district, shared this during his Constituency Briefing/Empowerment in Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State on Monday.

Akpabio said, “President Tinubu met a very bad condition on ground, nobody envied him, he said he was determined to change the situation, let us encourage him to change the situation. We believe that at the end of the day, we will move the country forward, he did it in Lagos before, and he will do it again in Nigeria, just give him time he will take us to our El Dorado.

“I want us to know that Nigeria was on life support when the people voted Tinubu to become the president. One day I asked him, Mr President, after becoming the president and seeing the level of economy that Emefiele left behind, are you excited? He said, well, I’m determined to change the situation.”

Akpabio also noted that the president has touched many lives through continuous constituency projects across the country, adding that the regional commissions set up across the country were aimed at the development of the regions and empowerment of the people.

He further claimed that President Tinubu has shown so much love to the South East by giving them a key ministry, the Ministry of Works to them and signing the South East Development Commission into an act of parliament even as he explained that every other regional development commission would be signed in no distant tim

In Akpabio words, “The president has shown the South East love, he has signed the South East Development Commission into an act of parliament, in addition, key ministries have been allocated, not on the basis of votes but on the NEEDS basis. The South East has a lot of ecological problems, the South East has very poor roads, just like the South South and Mr president decided to give us the Ministry of Works in addition to other key Ministries even the petroleum and gas ministry. Akwa Ibom is sitting on gas, all the way from Utapete down to Ibeno. Above all, the president, allowed our State to produce the No. 3 Citizen, the Senate President, the last time we had such an opportunity was in 1979. President Tinubu deserves all our support.”

“I want to appreciate the governor of Akwa Ibom State, His Excellency, Pastor Umo Eno, without peace there will not be development, the governor has decided to embrace all Akwa Ibom people irrespective of political lines even during Christmas.