Port Harcourt — In a vigorous address, Senate President Godswill Akpabio has assured citizens that while protests about the government go on, he and other officials will continue to bask in the fruits of their toil under the administration of President Bola Tinubu.
Akpabio said this during a peace-building meeting with the executive management of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, the ethnic nationalities of Niger Delta, and other stakeholders in Port Harcourt.
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The meeting was in preparation for planned nationwide protests slated from August 1 to 10, mainly by youths, protesting against poverty, unemployment, and misery in the country.
Well, seeming not to care about the outcry of experts that the #EndSARS protests could cost the economy about N4 trillion and deepen the extant economic fragility, Akpabio was unperturbed.
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“We are not interested in regime change. Let us own this government. Those who want to protest can protest. But let us be there eating,” he said.
He suggested, in his appeal, that the Senate President wishes the well-meaning people of this country to afford the Tinubu administration more time to implement such policies.
As Senate President, I will appeal to all the youths in Nigeria to just give this administration some more opportunities whereby most of the policies would have matured,” he said.
Protests across the country, a sign of deep-seated frustrations with the current economic conditions, signal the need for effective government actions towards solving national burning issues.
