The ousted administration of President Goodluck Jonathan may have deliberately set a trap to pitch the incoming government of Maj. Gen Muhammadu Buhari against Nigerians for allocating zero budget at fuel subsidy in the 2015 budget.
The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Legislative Budget and Research, Opeyemi Bamidele, has said the absence of a provision for fuel subsidy in the 2015 Appropriation Act is a booby trap for the incoming administration of the President-elect, Maj. Gen.Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), The Punch Newspaper eported
Bamidele, in a statement on Thursday according to The Punch Newspaper said, Buhari and the All Progressives Congress should understand the full implications of this and take immediate steps to let Nigerians know where they stand on the matter.
“The truth and reality of the situation is that the outgoing PDP administration has, through the 2015 budget, removed oil subsidy and it must be made to accept responsibility for it rather than for the incoming APC administration to bask in the euphoria of having won an election without realising the booby trap into which they and the Nigerian people are walking into,” he said.
The lawmaker, who contested the governorship seat in Ekiti State on the platform of the Labour Party, said apart from the reduced amount of N21bn provided in the Act for the Subsidy Reinvestment Programme, no other provision was made in the budget for subsidised welfare services.
Bamidele warned that the absence of the provision for continued fuel subsidy portends grave implications for the Buhari administration.
The statement read, “To me, this is definitely a booby trap for the incoming administration. Those who were suggesting within the APC that its incoming administration might withdraw fuel subsidy must be educated that they would be sending Nigerians a wrong signal capable of creating the impression that the APC either deceived Nigerians to get their votes or had reneged on its electoral promise as a progressive party.
“This is a serious development and a defining moment that calls for the attention of all well-meaning Nigerians at home and abroad. This is the first time in the last 16 years of our civilian rule that a new political party will be taking over to form a government and if care is not taken, this matter is capable of making the incoming government morally dead on arrival.
“For the record and for posterity purposes, I am opposed to this sudden removal of fuel subsidy and I implore Nigerian patriots to be aware.”
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Posted: at 24-04-2015 06:33 AM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
If I may ask,how many ordinary Nigerians have benefited from this so called Sure'P'? And as Mr GMB rightly said that his government is for the poor masses,i fully supported the withdrawal of oil subsidy. Long live Baba GMB
Posted: at 24-04-2015 07:26 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
freethinker at 24-04-2015 11:10 AM (9 years ago) (m)
WHAT HAS PRESISENT GOODLUCK DONE TO YORUBAS, HAUSA/FULANIS, AND EDO PEOPLE? THEY PREFER ABACHA TO THIS MAN, WHY? YORUBAS CONTROL THE MEDIA SO THEY WRITE WHATEVER THEY LIKE TO TARNISH THE IMAGINE OF THIS MAN PRESIDENT GOODLUCK IS NOT AS BLACK AS HE IS PAINTED, GIVE THIS MAN A BREAK
Posted: at 24-04-2015 11:10 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
oloche1984 at 24-04-2015 12:24 PM (9 years ago) (m)
why do we forget so soon, when Jonathan discovered the loophole in the treasury traceable to subsidy, he reacted by removing it and every one bounce on him like mad, now they want Buhari to remove it. What a Nation!
Posted: at 24-04-2015 12:24 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
Deepsea81 at 24-04-2015 03:17 PM (9 years ago) (m)
See them dey block the means of stealing now APC dey cry!!! So, that means they know what they want to come and do before you say the government is corrupt now they re setting things right before they go at least encourage them to do more abi make them open same door of corruption down for you no way. SHUT your phyuking mouth and let them do the right thing. Minister of Petroleum has said she stepped on big toes to do what is right now means even the incoming government there must be people involved too.
Posted: at 24-04-2015 03:17 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
SweetDaddy1 at 24-04-2015 04:47 PM (9 years ago) (m)
So is now you know that the incoming government is morally dead on arrival, the APC was morally dead when they accepted the five PDP governors and Olusegun Obasanjo into that party.
Posted: at 24-04-2015 04:47 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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