What is your plan to bring down the cost of fuel in Nigeria?
I have proposed a production subsidy that will reduce the underlying cost of making petrol in Nigeria. This is a different approach from simply telling Nigerians to endure rising fuel, transport and food costs. A competent government should be able to protect both the producer and the consumer, and that is the thinking behind this proposal.
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“A competent government should be able to protect both the producer and the consumer.”
Atiku accused the Tinubu administration of turning hardship into an ideology and calling it reform. “For three years, Nigerians have been told to endure. “Fuel rises, they say endure. Transport rises, endure. Food rises, endure. Businesses are crushed by energy costs, endure. Household incomes collapse, endure. “Every new hardship is presented as proof that reform is working. “Then we propose a production subsidy that will reduce the underlying cost of making petrol in Nigeria, and suddenly the Presidency predicts catastrophe.