Former Abia state governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, has
appealed to Nigerians to give President Buhari more
time to address our economic challenges. Kalu made
the call when he hosted Catholic Bishops and the
diplomatic community at his Abuja home yesterday.
He said Nigeria was in recession in 2014 and was
able to come out of it and that hopefully this
administration will bring Nigeria out of this current
economic recession. He noted that President Buhari
had spent just one year out of his four year term in
office.
"I'm calling on Nigerian youths to be of good
use to themselves. Let me be honest with you,
I cannot judge Buhari. He has a four-year
mandate to turn things around. He still has
time and I expect that he will do something.
Young people might be feeling frustrated.
Government must not do everything. The
only thing is that government is not paying
enough attention to the manufacturing sector.
If I am government, I will pay attention to
manufacturing and agriculture. You pay
attention through the entrepreneurs by giving
them single digit loans and opportunities. All
the enterprise done by government will not
work until they see us as partners. When
Dangote was starting his cement factory, he
was encouraged by the government. Today, he
is all over Nigeria. The problem is people are
envious and jealous; they see Orji Kalu who is
rich, but they do not know what I have gone
through to get to this level. They want to be
like me, and that is not possible. Government
should grant more incentives to the
entrepreneurs. In June 1999, I told President
Olusegun Obasanjo how to solve the power
sector by doing something differently. We
brought people and they promised to fix the
power problem up to 75 percent. But
Obasanjo refused. The amount needed was
N14 billion. If Nigeria can fix power and
insecurity, the country will move forward”.
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