Senator Orji Kalu has claimed that President Bola Tinubu moves around the capital city Abuja at night sometimes to understand the suffering of the people.
“The president himself knows that Nigerians are suffering and hungry. He is a street person; he knows the street very well,” Kalu said on Thursday’s edition of Channels Television’s Politics Today.
“The president some nights uses his car to go around and know what is happening in Abuja here. The president goes around with one or two cars and sees what is happening. He is not a president that is locked up in the room.”
Revealing how much he earns in the Senate, the former governor of Abia State said: “I earn N14 million for everything in a month. That is everything encompassing, the overhead, the worker’s salary, everybody.”
He argued that the money is not enough to buy petrol to travel to his constituency and maintain the constituency office among other things.
The Abia North lawmaker further said contrary to public opinion lawmakers have no official vehicles.
“I am in the Senate and a lot of things are said about the senators and I sit there quietly and watch, and most of these things are not true. All I know is that committees get vehicles, no lawmaker is given any vehicle,” he said.
