This is going to be the first test of Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s will. IPMAN is saying no to the number 1 man in Nigeria. They are ready to fight to finish.
“FG must keep paying us subsidy until they build refineries,” they say. How laughable. So, if FG keeps paying you guys subsidy, where will it get money to rebuild refineries? I ask you most humbly.
If you really care about the progress of this country, why would you not want market forces to control price of petroleum products so that government will channel more money into building these refineries and other infrastructure you speak about?
Well, this is going to be the time for Tinubu to show us the Jagaban in him. If he is able to humble Omo Alaye of the whole Southwest and beyond, let us see how IPMAN will fare.
Meanwhile, I strongly believe that IPMAN is not being fair to the Nigerian citizens. They are not being fair to Nigeria. Let Nigerians bother about the first shock of subsidy removal. We shall survive. We must acclimatize. Let those billions of naira they are paying into your private pockets, many times for supplies that were never made, go into public good.
Enough is enough.
Meanwhile, as a developmental journalist, I bring you good tidings from the presidency. Tinubu said himself that the subsidy removal will bring on its wake infrastructural development. This was as he announced that after June 30, “fuel subsidy is gone,” in his inaugural speech.
“The fuel subsidy is gone!” Mr Tinubu declared, noting that “Subsidy can no longer justify its ever-increasing costs in the wake of drying resources.”
He added that his administration will instead “re-channel the funds into better investment in public infrastructure, education, health care and jobs that will materially improve the lives of millions.”
Meanwhile even at 800 Naira per litre of car fuel, vehicles are still causing traffic in Awka, Anambra State capital this morning. A young friend of mine would say, “Ugbo na agba.” Let us see how this pan out at the centre. We Dey.
