Mr. Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, has stated that he has always advocated for the elimination of fuel subsidies.
Tinubu announced the end of petrol subsidies during his inauguration as President.
Obi announced this on Twitter on Tuesday, saying he has always supported the removal of fuel subsidies since his time as a member of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s Economic Management Team.
“I’ve actually been in support of the removal of subsidies since the era of President Goodluck Jonathan, when I was a member of the Economic Management Team,” he said.
“If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll know that I’ve been advocating for the elimination of subsidies since I was a member of Jonathan’s economic management team. I see it as organised crime.”
“People were simply stealing the country’s resources, and I demonstrated empirically in my statistical analysis that we were not consuming the amount of fuel they claimed we did.”
Further explaining, the former Anambra State governor used a “tooth pain” removal analogy.
“If you go to a dentist to have a painful tooth extracted, he will use a local anaesthetic to numb the area around the tooth so you don’t feel any pain.” The pain you experience will be different than if you pulled the tooth forcefully.
“I will take the dentist’s approach while supporting tooth removal because I do not want to go through the pain of a forceful removal.”
In his manifesto, he stated, “I will govern with the people and show them statistically and empirically what we are going to save, and what we are going to do using the savings to better the suffering masses.”
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