"Why Buhari Couldn’t Remove Fuel Subsidy" – Femi Adesina Justifies Reason

Date: 05-01-2023 9:34 am (1 year ago) | Author: onuigbo felicia
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Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina has justified the reason his principal could not remove fuel subsidy.

Adesina, who spoke in an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday.

Recall that the Buhari government since its inception could not remove subsidy until now even after describing it as a fraud.

Adesina said, “Each time there is an effort to fight the fraud in the subsidy regime, you have to contend with labour, you have to contend with the people. The government needed to weigh its options because of the social consequences in it.”

Buhari, during his campaigning ahead of the 2015 presidential election, had queried the justification behind retaining fuel subsidy.

But, seven years after, the Buhari administration announced that subsidy removal will come into effect in June 2023 after he must have completed his two terms in office.

Adesina blamed his principal’s inability to remove subsidy on economic and social factors.

He said, “In the beginning, his (Buhari’s) position was: what was subsidy really? But over the years it became evident that the country was bleeding, the economy was bleeding, there was a lot of hemorrhage which needed to be stopped and the time came and that time is now,” Adesina said.

According to Adesina, the petrol subsidy had stayed longer than required.

He added that almost every Nigerian has now come to the realisation that it must come to a stop.

Meanwhile, the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, during a public presentation and breakdown of the 2023 Appropriation Act in Abuja, on Wednesday, disclosed that payment of fuel subsidy will stop by the end of June 2023.

Ahmed noted that in the 2023 fiscal period, the government made provisions of N3.36 trillion naira for fuel subsidy payment to cover the first six months of 2023.

According to the minister, this move was in line with the 18-month extension announced early 2022.

Posted: at 5-01-2023 09:34 AM (1 year ago) | Addicted Hero
- kp45 at 5-01-2023 10:45 AM (1 year ago)
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I don't know what to tell these people but thank God for 2023.
Posted: at 5-01-2023 10:45 AM (1 year ago) | Addicted Hero
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- gogoman at 5-01-2023 01:30 PM (1 year ago)
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Buhari rule!!!!!
Posted: at 5-01-2023 01:30 PM (1 year ago) | Grande Master
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- fineboy77 at 5-01-2023 01:41 PM (1 year ago)
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Was there anything that Buhari could do?

Posted: at 5-01-2023 01:41 PM (1 year ago) | Addicted Hero
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