{"id":144612,"date":"2025-01-02T22:46:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T21:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/tinubu-working-hard-to-reverse-hunger-in-nigeria-uzor-kalu"},"modified":"2025-01-02T23:51:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T22:51:48","slug":"tinubu-working-hard-to-reverse-hunger-in-nigeria-uzor-kalu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-working-hard-to-reverse-hunger-in-nigeria-uzor-kalu","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu working hard to reverse hunger in Nigeria \u2013 Uzor-Kalu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Abia State governor and serving senator, Orji Uzor\u2013Kalu says President Bola Tinubu is aware of the current hunger in the country and was taking bold decisions to reverse the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Uzor\u2013Kalu stated this on Thursday at Ekoli, Edda Local Government Area of Ebonyi during a New Year visit to the state Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Stanley Okoro-Emegha.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Tinubu is working hard to reverse the situation, urging Nigerians to be patient with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President is currently taking hard decisions centered on economic development. The President is very bold to take such hard decisions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI might not be bold enough to take such decisions if I was the President as he is telling Nigerians that we should start afresh,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-Abia State governor explained that he was personally sad over the situation, calling on Nigerians to show understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would soon see the big light at the end of the tunnel,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said his visit to the state chairman of the APC was an annual one, stressing that it fosters the relationship with Okoro-Emegha, who he termed his \u2018political son\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Emegha in his remarks thanked Kalu for the visit, noting that the bond between them will continue waxing strong.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that that Okoro\u2013Emegha was an aide to Uzor\u2013Kalu when he was the Abia Governor between 1999\u20142007.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former Abia State governor and serving senator, Orji Uzor\u2013Kalu says President Bola Tinubu is aware of the current hunger in the country and was taking bold decisions to reverse the situation. Uzor\u2013Kalu stated this on Thursday at Ekoli, Edda Local Government Area of Ebonyi during a New Year visit to the state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":144610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254,945,5763],"class_list":["post-144612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria","tag-tinubu","tag-uzor-kalu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tinubu working hard to reverse hunger in Nigeria \u2013 Uzor-Kalu - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Abia State governor and serving senator, Orji Uzor\u2013Kalu says President Bola Tinubu is aware of the current hunger ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-working-hard-to-reverse-hunger-in-nigeria-uzor-kalu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tinubu working hard to reverse hunger in Nigeria \u2013 Uzor-Kalu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Abia State governor and serving senator, Orji Uzor\u2013Kalu says President Bola Tinubu is aware of the current hunger ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-working-hard-to-reverse-hunger-in-nigeria-uzor-kalu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-01-02T21:46:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-01-02T22:51:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1735845675.390951.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"960\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-working-hard-to-reverse-hunger-in-nigeria-uzor-kalu#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-working-hard-to-reverse-hunger-in-nigeria-uzor-kalu\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Tinubu working hard to reverse hunger in Nigeria \u2013 Uzor-Kalu\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-01-02T21:46:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-02T22:51:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-working-hard-to-reverse-hunger-in-nigeria-uzor-kalu\"},\"wordCount\":252,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-working-hard-to-reverse-hunger-in-nigeria-uzor-kalu#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1735845675.390951.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"Tinubu\",\"uzor kalu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-working-hard-to-reverse-hunger-in-nigeria-uzor-kalu#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-working-hard-to-reverse-hunger-in-nigeria-uzor-kalu\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-working-hard-to-reverse-hunger-in-nigeria-uzor-kalu\",\"name\":\"Tinubu working hard to reverse hunger in Nigeria \u2013 Uzor-Kalu - 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