The member representing Ido/Osi/Moba/Ilejemeje Federal Constituency of Ekiti State in the House of Representatives, Hon Akinlayo Kolawole, has called on Nigerians to be patient with the President Bola Tinubu led administration.
Speaking on the heels of protests across the country as due to economic hardship, the lawmaker expressed confidence in the government to steer the country to prosperity.
He urged Nigerians to embrace dialogue as a means addressing their concerns rather than protests.
The lawmaker said it is the constitutional duty of the citizen to also protest if they feel that the government is not doing what they are supposed to do.
Kolawole however pointed that the present administration is still new and inherited a faulty system which it is working assiduously to address.
He said President Tinubu was confronting the various challenges head-on for the benefit of Nigerians.
“If you inherit a bad structure, it will take a while for you to repair it and make it stand solid. So, I want to beg all of us and the press people to also be patient with the government in power. Give us a little time.
“I promise that the government will do the needful. We all know that. And as we get the youth that are protesting, I will visit them and advise. And also I beg them to please dialogue. Because if you could see that the crisis in Iran, if you look at the crisis in Russia and Ukraine for the past almost two years. They have be fighting and no solution in place.
“But if they come to table, I think that crisis will be resolved. So I want our youth to also consider that olive branch that the president has offered them. That they should come to table for dialogue.
“So whatever demand they have, they can table it before the government. The one the government can do immediately, they will offer it. The one they can do in a long time process, they will also let them know.
“So dialogue is better than protest. So we advise our youth and our compatriots to please be patient with the government. The government will do the needful at the right time,” he said.
