Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused President Bola Tinubu of lying to Nigerians about fuel subsidy removal.
In a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, Atiku said the Federal Government is still subsidising fuel despite Tinubu’s claim in his inaugural speech that fuel subsidy has been removed.
He said with oil price now selling at $94 per barrel, and naira exchanging at roughly N1,000/$1, it is obvious that the Federal Government is paying some money to keep the price of fuel at N620 per litre in the country.
Atiku also accused Tinubu of running a clannish government, despite his promise to Nigerians in his inaugural speech to “serve with prejudice towards none.”
He alleged that Tinubu is “running a government of the clannish, by the clannish and for the clannish,” pointing out that all key appointments he made in Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), customs, army, police, immigration, went to his own part of the country, while “he himself is the petroleum and gas minister”.
“Tinubu appointed 10 ministers from the South West and only five from the South East. If this isn’t prejudice, I don’t know what it is,” he added.
Atiku said he has been justified when he raised the alarm that the $3 billion loan the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) claimed to have obtained from Afrexim to stabilise the naira, was a ruse.
