Gịnị ka ị ga-eme dịka onye isi ala iji belata ọnụ ahịa njem n'Naịjirịa?
Aghọtara m ihe ego ụgbọ njem na-eme gị, ezinụlọ gị, na ọtụtụ Naịjirịa ndị dị ka gị. Ọ bụ kpọmkwem ihe mere m ji tinye mmefu ego dị mma n'etiti usoro akụ na ụba m.
Nke a bụ arụmụka m: belata ọnụahịa ike ka ọnụahịa ụgbọ njem belata, ka ego ole na ole dị gị n'ụgwọ ọrụ ghara ịla n'iyi naanị n'ịgbaga ọrụ. Belata ọnụahịa ibuga nri ka ezinụlọ gị na-emefu obere ego n'ahịa. Mgbe petrol ghọrọ ihe ọnụahịa, ihe niile dabere na ya na-aghọkwa ọnụahịa, iburu tomato site n'ugbo, ibuga osikapa n'ahịa, ibuga ụmụaka n'ụlọ akwụkwọ, ịgba igwe igwe nri mpaghara obodo, inye ike maka obere ụlọ ahịa. Belata ọnụahịa ahụ, enyemaka ahụ ga-erukwa na tebụl eri nri gị.
Iji mee nke a, enyela m aro maka ọgbọnga mmanụ petrol nke bụ nkwado mmepụta, ọ bụghị ịlaghachi n'ịkwado petrol a na-ebubata. Ọ na-enye nkwado akpebisiri ike nke jikọtara na crude a na-anụcha n'ime obodo. Ọgbọnga a nwere oke, e debere ya na mmefu ego n'ụzọ doro anya, a na-enyochakwa ya n'onwe ya.
Ekwuwo m na n'obodo na-emepụta mmanụ, petrol ekwesịghị ịghọ ngwaahịa oke ọnụahịa, na ezigbo ule maka usoro akụ na ụba ọ bụla bụ ma ndị nkịtị bi na Naịjirịa nwere ike ịkwụ ụgwọ ụgbọ njem, nri, agụmakwụkwọ, nlekọta ahụike, na ndụ dị mma. Ejikerela m maka amụma mmepụta, nchebe na ikike ịkwụ ụgwọ kama amụma nke na-ahapụ ụmụ amaala ka ha naanị na-anagide ọnụahịa na-arịgo elu.
A sụgharịrị azịza ndị dị na peeji a site na Bekee site na igwe, ọ bụkwa na onye nsụgharị elelebeghị ha.
Ebe nke a si abịa
peeji 4 Introduction Atiku Abubakar: Answers to questions from the public 2026-10-02 ›
Q18: Transport fares are becoming unaffordable, while people in cities such as Lagos spend hours in traffic. What will you do to improve public transportation and reduce transport costs? Answer: My plan is to accelerate urban mass transit rail lines, expand Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems, develop inland waterway passenger ferries, and lower transport operational costs by subsidizing local fuel refining inputs. Q19: Communities are repeatedly promised roads and other infrastructure, but projects are abandoned or deteriorate shortly after construction. How will you improve project completion, quality and accountability? Answer: A $25 billion private-sector-led Infrastructure Development Fund will be created, enforcing mandatory third-party engineering audits and releasing funds based on verified milestones to stop project abandonment. Q20: How will you ensure that infrastructure investment reaches rural communities and is distributed fairly across Nigeria rather than concentrated in major cities? Answer: I will make sure the budget allocation model will use population and agricultural productivity benchmarks-rather than urban density alone-to guarantee equitable infrastructure funding across every geopolitical zone.
peeji 6 Introduction Atiku Abubakar: Answers to questions from the public 2026-10-02 ›
Answer: I am proposing a Production Subsidy Model that lowers crude supply prices or offers fiscal relief on inputs to local refiners. This reduces refining costs at home and lowers retail pump prices without forcing refiners into losses. Q40: If government subsidises locally refined petrol or crude supplied to refineries, how much will it cost, where will the money come from, and what happens if oil prices rise or government revenue falls? Answer: The subsidy will be explicitly capped in the national budget and funded directly from domestic crude sales. Global price shocks will be managed using structured fiscal stabilization buffers and oil revenue hedging tools.
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Atiku has more important people to engage directly: the mother struggling to feed her children; the civil servant whose salary disappears into transportation; the farmer paying more to move produce to market; the student being pushed into debt simply to remain in school; and millions of Nigerians whose daily reality bears no resemblance to the prosperity advertised in your tweets.
And that is where the contradiction in your statement becomes impossible to ignore. You condemn Atiku’s proposal to reduce the cost of energy as a return to the past, yet in the same breath promise that, “in the next few weeks,” your government will provide cheaper transportation, increase food production and introduce relief for vulnerable Nigerians. Bola, why now?
For more than three years, Nigerians have endured punishing transport fares, soaring food prices, crippling energy costs and wages that buy less every month. Families have skipped meals, postponed medical treatment, withdrawn children from schools and abandoned basic plans simply to survive. Throughout that period, your government repeatedly told Nigerians that their suffering was the unavoidable price of reform. Now, suddenly, cheaper transportation has become urgent.
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Why did Nigerians have to suffer for more than three years before your government discovered that economic growth must reach “the dining table and the pocket”? Why is intervention backward when Atiku proposes it, but progressive when you announce it? You cannot condemn cheaper living when Atiku proposes it and rename the same objective Renewed Hope when you promise it. That is not economic consistency. It is political convenience.
Atiku chose to stand with the people. That is a commitment. And, Bola, Atiku is ashamed on your behalf that Nigeria, one of Africa’s major oil-producing nations, has reached the point where ordinary citizens pay significantly more for petrol than citizens of several other oil-producing countries with substantially higher incomes and living standards.
Saudi Arabia sells petrol at about ₦778 per litre. Kuwait is around ₦872. Algeria is about ₦475. Angola is about ₦441. Even the United Arab Emirates, where average incomes are vastly higher than Nigeria’s, sells petrol below Nigeria’s roughly ₦1,400 per litre.
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These countries did not conclude that oil production requires punishing citizens at the pump. In different ways, they have used their natural-resource advantage to moderate the energy burden on their people. Nigeria has turned that advantage upside down. Our people earn less, live under greater pressure and yet pay more for the fuel that drives transportation, farming, food distribution, manufacturing and virtually every aspect of daily life.
And, Bola, Atiku is particularly ashamed on your behalf when he looks at Libya. A country battered by years of political instability still sells petrol at roughly ₦34 per litre and ranks around 115th globally in human development. Nigeria sells petrol at roughly ₦1,400 per litre and ranks around 164th.
How did your celebrated reform leave Nigerians paying vastly more for fuel while enjoying a lower standard of human development? That is not merely a pump-price debate. It is an affordability scandal.
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Atiku’s argument is precisely the opposite. Reduce the cost of energy so that salaries buy more. Reduce transport costs so that less of a worker’s wage disappears merely getting to work. Reduce the cost of moving food so families spend less in the market. Reduce the cost of living so students spend less on upkeep and parents have more money left after food, rent and transportation.
You cannot make life painfully expensive, push students towards debt to survive the consequences, and then frighten those same students that cheaper fuel will take their loans away. Nor can you tell workers that a policy designed to restore value to their wages will somehow take those wages from them. That is not economic reform. It is scarecrow propaganda built on witchcraft economics.
And while you celebrate statistics, Nigerians still deserve answers about the enormous sums surrounding your so-called reforms. Your government says subsidy removal mobilised about ₦15.8 trillion between June 2023 and December 2025. Nigerians surrendered cheap fuel. They paid more for transportation. They paid more for food. They watched the value of their wages collapse. So what measurable improvement reached the average Nigerian household in exchange for that sacrifice?
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Bigger figures do not mean bigger value. When supposedly record allocations coexist with weaker purchasing power, enormous debts and outstanding obligations, government cannot simply shout ‘FAAC’ and expect Nigerians to stop asking questions.”
Atiku said the entire argument ultimately comes down to affordability and the quality of life of ordinary Nigerians. “This is the contrast at the heart of the economic debate: Tinubu made life expensive; Atiku will make life affordable again. Affordability must mean cheaper transportation, lower pressure on food prices, more manageable energy costs, stronger purchasing power and an economy in which the income of ordinary Nigerians can once again meet the necessities of everyday life. “The test is brutally simple: what is the money worth? What has it delivered? What obligations has it settled? And are Nigerians actually better off?
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“If government wants to provide additional relief beyond what lower crude-input costs can sustainably deliver, then government must pay for that relief openly. “It must be budgeted. It must be capped. It must be audited. Nigerians must know exactly what is being spent and what they are receiving in return. “You cannot announce a politically convenient petrol price and quietly dump the cost on the refinery. “That is not policy. That is confiscation by another name.”
Atiku said the production subsidy would therefore operate with strict safeguards, including a hard fiscal ceiling, a maximum support level per barrel, independent verification of supported crude, electronic tracking of crude intake and refined output, domestic-supply obligations, transparent pricing, independent audits and severe penalties for diversion or fraud.
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“Our proposal is clear: support domestic production, reduce the cost of crude going into Nigerian refineries, protect legitimate refinery margins and ensure that lower production costs translate into lower costs for Nigerians.”
Atiku said the Presidency should stop inventing a policy for him and then attacking the fiction it created. “We have been clear from the beginning. “We are restoring subsidy through a production model. “We are proposing a production subsidy not an import subsidy. We are not proposing to subsidise petrol refined abroad. We are not proposing to force Dangote or any other Nigerian refinery to sell below cost. “We are proposing targeted support for crude refined here in Nigeria so that domestic refineries can produce more competitively, expand capacity, create jobs and sell fuel at a price Nigerians can better afford.
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Atiku said the relationship between energy costs and household welfare was precisely why his economic programme placed affordability at its centre. The World Bank has previously noted that higher petrol prices reduce household purchasing power directly and can also feed through into the prices of other goods and services, particularly transportation.
“When fuel becomes expensive, transporting tomatoes from the farm becomes expensive. Taking rice to the market becomes expensive. Moving children to school becomes expensive. Running the neighbourhood grinding machine becomes expensive. Powering the small shop becomes expensive.
“And eventually, the additional cost arrives at the dinner table.
“That is why I refuse to accept an economic philosophy in which government simply watches prices rise and tells struggling citizens to endure.”
Atiku reiterated that his proposed petroleum intervention is a production subsidy, rather than a return to subsidising imported petrol. His published proposal provides for targeted support tied to crude refined domestically, with the intervention capped, transparently budgeted and independently audited.
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“My position is straightforward: support what Nigeria produces and refines, lower domestic production costs, and ensure that the benefit reaches the Nigerian consumer.
“This is not an import subsidy. If you do not refine in Nigeria, you do not qualify.
“The subsidy follows the barrel refined in Nigeria.
“Produce here. Refine here. Create jobs here. Pay less here.”
Atiku said reducing the underlying cost of energy was important not only because Nigerians buy petrol, but because energy and transportation costs run through agriculture, manufacturing, logistics, markets and household expenditure.
“My production-subsidy proposal is therefore not simply a petrol policy. It is part of a broader affordability programme.
“I want the farmer to spend less getting produce to market. I want the trader to spend less transporting goods. I want the bus driver to spend less on fuel. I want parents to have more money left after transportation so that they can put better food on the table.
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“Economic policy must ultimately answer a very simple question: Can the ordinary Nigerian afford to live?
“The nutrition figures before us make that question even more urgent. We must expand treatment for severely malnourished children, strengthen maternal and child nutrition programmes and ensure that nutrition budgets actually reach communities. But we must also confront the economic pressures that make adequate diets increasingly difficult for struggling households.
“We cannot build a strong country on the bodies of hungry children.
“We cannot celebrate economic statistics while mothers are cutting meals and children are denied the nutrition they require to grow.
“My objective is clear: lower the cost of energy, lower transportation and production costs, strengthen Nigerian production, restore purchasing power and give families breathing room again.
I will make life affordable again.”
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The former Vice President reiterated that his proposed intervention would not revive the corrupt and opaque subsidy regime of the past. Instead, it would introduce a transparent production subsidy tied strictly to petroleum products refined in Nigeria and sold to Nigerians. “If elected, from May 29, 2027, I will introduce a transparent production subsidy for petroleum products refined in Nigeria and sold to Nigerians. “Imports will not qualify. The programme will have a fixed spending limit, National Assembly approval and independent audits. Its purpose will be to reduce fuel prices, strengthen domestic refining, create Nigerian jobs and restore the purchasing power that this administration has destroyed. “The 67.4 per cent demanding relief represents a democratic majority.
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The former Vice President reiterated his commitment to policies designed to reduce the cost of living if elected president, including a targeted production subsidy for petroleum products refined in Nigeria, rather than a return to an open-ended subsidy on imported fuel.
He said the policy would be structured to support domestic refining, eliminate waste and ensure that government support translates directly into lower prices for consumers.
“My promise to make life affordable again is not a political slogan. It is a solemn covenant with the Nigerian people.
“We will support what Nigeria produces. We will support fuel refined in Nigeria, create Nigerian jobs and insist that every naira of government support delivers a measurable benefit to the consumer.
“The purpose of government is not merely to announce reforms. The purpose of government is to make life better for the people.”
Atiku said Nigeria’s young people deserve classrooms, skills, jobs and opportunities that allow them to fulfil their potential rather than an economy that leaves survival increasingly dependent on dangerous and uncertain livelihoods.
peeji 8 1.2. INFRASTRUCTURE & TRANSPORT Party Manifesto 2027-2031 2026-10-05 ›
2. Fix logistics and transport to lower the cost of goods. We will reduce the cost of moving people and goods across Nigeria by improving key transport systems and removing bottlenecks. ● Shift heavy cargo from roads to rail and waterways, reducing congestion and road damage ● Build rail links connecting ports, industrial zones, and agricultural hubs ● Develop logistics hubs and depots outside major cities to ease urban congestion ● Improve rural roads to connect farmers to markets
3. Reform transport infrastructure through private sector participation. Government will shift from being the primary operator to an enabler and regulator.
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