The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, acknowledged the country’s current issues over the weekend, but told Nigerians that President Bola Tinubu’s administration would leave a lasting legacy that would ensure a better future.

Speaking at the University of Calabar’s UNICAL ’87 Law Class Re-Union 2024 in Calabar, Akpabio stated that Nigerians’ current challenges are the result of previous maladministration in the country.

The Senate President, a law graduate from the University of Calabar, stated: “The issues we are experiencing in our country today were not precipitated by the current administration. These are the result of years of poor administration.

“Any country that lacks backbone infrastructure, does not have something to grow, does not save for rainy days, is likely to be hit by economic malaise such as we are witnessing in the globe now.

“The good news is that under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, we now have optimism that there is light at the end of the tunnel. We are attempting to accomplish things for posterity. Not for ourselves. Be confident that this administration will leave lasting legacies that will ensure a brighter future.

Earlier, Akpabio led his former classmates on separate courtesy visits to the Governor of Cross River State, Prince Bassey Otu, and the Vice Chancellor of UNICAL, Professor Florence Obi, who later outlined a slew of challenges confronting the institution, particularly in terms of infrastructure.

He informed the university administration that the ’87 Law Class had decided to convene at the institution primarily to assess the condition of affairs at their alma mater and to determine how best they might support the institution that had fostered them.

On behalf of the Law Class of 1987, Akpabio announced the donation of two Coaster buses to the Faculty of Law and the UNICAL Student Union Government (SUG).

Otu, a UNICAL graduate, told the visiting ’87 Law Class that the Cross River State government would work with them on whatever they planned for the college.

“We want to look at what you will do and Cross River State will also partner with you and add to whatever you are going to do,” the state’s governor stated.

Speaking at the re-union, the Patron of the ’87 Law Class, Justice Okon Abang of the Court of Appeal, noted that his former classmates’ road to where they are now was not without hurdles.

“As I reflect on the accomplishment of this class, I am overwhelmed by how much we have collectively contributed to the legal profession and to the progress of our great nation and the entire commonwealth of nations,” the Supreme Court justice stated.