 Meanwhile, the Senate president, Senator Acquavio, has pleaded with the organized labor and other Nigerians to show more understanding and give the Tinobu-led administration more time to fix Nigeria. Acquavio made their appeal during a meeting with the leadership of the Senate and the organized labor at the National Assembly Complex in Abuja on Tuesday. The Senate president, while commending the labor leaders for their resilience, disclosed that President Tinobu inherited a country with a lot of challenges, noting that the current challenges remain a pointer to the fact that Nigeria is going through transformation. Pleading with you to bear with this administration that is less than two months old, to work together, to put Nigeria on a path of progress. Subsidy, if we had left it, subsidy was killing Nigeria. Subsidy was capable of killing Nigeria. Subsidy will eventually have killed Nigeria. You have decided to allow Nigeria to breathe. That subsidy should go. We concur with your decision that Nigerians must breathe. So I thank you so much for coming. The $70 billion was earmarked for, you've seen the structures going on and everything. And then every four or eight years, whenever the furniture in offices of senators and members of the House of Representatives come to what they call, I don't know what they call in the financial terms, is it a zero, no, is it a amortized, when it comes to zero value, they normally bought those things and when they bought them, they tried to replace them. So this time, when this 10 Senate came and the 10 National Assembly, they had nothing to work with, computers, nothing, even vehicles, nothing. You can't do oversight function with a canapé. So that money is not meant for senators, but you can see the mischief of Nigerians and what the social media can do. They turn things around to make it look as if the $70 billion was palliative for senators and House of Representatives. For me, I don't believe in running government on pages of newspapers. Earlier in their separate remarks, the president of Nigeria Labor Congress, Joe Agero, and his counterpart in the trade union Congress, Festus of Sifo, had accused the federal government of not being sincere with the labor, noting that government on two occasions increased the pump price of petrol while negotiation was ongoing. People are suffering in the country. It's like PMS is at the center of economic activities in the country and any time it is touched, every other aspect is affected. It has never been touched like this before, the first and the second punch without anything on ground. We have followed a trend of increase in PMS from 1970 to date. In most instances, it's better we provide something on ground to prepare the minds of the people before going into it. But let me say that the labor movement, unlike before, didn't go into the issue of reduce one error or reduce two error. We felt we should think outside the box because from 1970 to date, when the increased labor protests goes on strike, they reduce the price, probably with 15 error or 100 error. But this time around, we felt we cannot continue that way, we have to think outside the box. That was what necessitated coming up with alternatives and we resolved, since we're already working on the CNG option since 2020. Distinguished senator and distinguished president of the Senate, we know clearly the difficulty we have today in Nigeria. Our members are clearly suffering, Nigerians are clearly suffering. Some people trek to work today. I think that just as my colleague said, that before now, the models of perennial of labor has been quite different. But we said, okay, the government has told us that they are going to create alternatives. The government told us that they are going to bring about palliatives, which said, let us listen and let us even watch these palliatives and these alternatives. Maybe it could be better because the conversation we were having sometime in 2020, we're talking about CNG as a low debt tool. Let us see how this government could fast track these processes. Yes, we understand that today we have challenges on CNG infrastructures because the cities where you could deploy CNG as it stands today is somewhere maybe around some places in Lagos, some places in Portaqot, I'm not quite sure any state in the north could support that system today. So we understand that clearly.