Former Labour Party (LP) presidential aspirant, Prof. Pat Utomi, has slammed Senate President Godswill Akpabio and other senators for mocking and laughing at poor Nigerians with a sarcastic ‘Let The Poor Breathe’ motion amid the prevailing economic hardship in the country.
The Senate President on Tuesday while urging the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and the electricity distribution companies to stop their proposed electricity tariff increment, moved a sarcastic motion that the poor should be allowed to breathe.
“The prayer is that, let the poor breathe, and Senator Mustapha has seconded that the poor should breathe. Those who are in support of the additional prayer that the poor should be allowed to breathe, say ‘hi’ and those who are against say ‘nay,’” Akpabio had.
All the senators said “Hi”.
Reacting to the motion, Utomi who expressed his displeasure on his Twitter handle early on Friday said it was traumatizing for the lawmakers to mock poor Nigerians, stressing that to mock the poor is to mock God.
I am traumatized by this mocking of the poor by our Senate. In a decent society we should have had resignations by now. To mock the poor is to mock God. I know where Godswill Akpabio was before Obong Victor Attah gave a hand. Better an honest poor than a rich thief politician
— Pat Utomi (@UtomiPat) July 28, 2023
He lambasted Akpabio, a former Akwa Ibom State Governor, saying that he (Utomi) knew the level the Senate President was at before former Akwa Ibom Governor, Obong Victor Attah, gave him a helping hand.
Utomi said, “I am traumatized by this mocking of the poor by our Senate. In a decent society we should have had resignations by now.
“To mock the poor is to mock God. I know where Godswill Akpabio was before Obong Victor Attah gave a hand. Better an honest poor than a rich thief politician.”
