Let the poor breath, Nigerians knock Akpabio for making joke of their economic condition

Nigerians on social media have registered their displeasure with Senate President Godswill Akpabio for supposedly making jokes about the sufferings of citizens occasioned by the removal of fuel subsidy.

Akpabio had at the floor of the senate made a joke with ‘Let the poor breath’, a popular phrase attached to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in a now-viral video.

However, his supposed jokes seemed to have offended Nigerians who felt that the Senate President was insensitive with his conduct on the floor of the Senate.

Reacting to the now-viral video, Dele Farotimi a popular Nigerian legal practitioner, warned that the poor will eat the rich when they have nothing to eat.

“When the poor have nothing to eat, they will eat the rich..” he wrote.

Expressing his displeasure with the Senate president, @Mozizi01 lamented that the poor masses had become a ‘playing point’ for Nigerian politicians

“So poor man don turn playing point (not prayer point) for our politicians? God abeg oh, nah your hand we dey oh.”

On his part, Victor Oliseh wrote “These men are demons, my only happiness here is that those who think playing politics in the interest of people are seeing their selected rulers mocking them to their faces. Nigeria isn’t ripe for democracy yet, these men are evil”

Also reacting to Akpabio’s insensitive joke, @blessed_peter1 suggested that Nigerians were only waiting for court judgement as Majority of the country’s citizens were unhappy with the current government.

“People are only waiting for the court judgement.. 90 per cent of citizens in this country are so angry with what is going on right now. I just pray this country don’t burn,” he wrote.

Let the poor breath was a popular comment made by President Tinubu in the buildup to the 2023 presidential election.