The president of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has urged Nigerians to support the “Renewed Hope Agenda” of President Bola Tinubu as it was designed to make Nigeria the “toast” of Africa.
Mr Akpabio made the call at the seventh convocation of the National Institute of Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS), University of Benin in Abuja on Monday.
Represented by the chairman, Senate committee on finance, Sani Musa, Mr Akpabio said the “Renewed Hope Agenda” would restore the glory of Nigeria.
He recalled that decades ago, Nigeria was the world’s largest producer of cocoa, palm produce, groundnuts, among others.
According to him, we had groundnut pyramids in the north, the cocoa houses in the west, and palm plantations in the east.
Mr Akpabio said that going back to agricultural production in addition to oil earnings would boost revenue generation in the country.
The lawmaker said that government currently spent more than its revenue, saying that it was bad for the country;…