The All Progressives Congress
(APC) has declared support for the Federal Government’s decision, to subsidize
the price of petrol.
APC’s National Publicity
Secretary, Malam Bolaji Abdullahi, told The Guardian that the decision was
taken to save Nigerians from the brunt of additional increase in the price of
petroleum products in the country.
“The thing is that these are
tough choices that government would have to make. Either choice you make comes
with its own costs, either economic or political. At the end of the day the
government has to take the best decision in the interest of the people.
“The issue of subsidy became a
problem in the previous regime because of the corruption associated with it.
“If you followed the conversation
around January 2012 on the removal of fuel subsidy, you would have realized
that Nigerians were opposed to the action at the time. They kicked against it
because people were making money out of it to the detriment of the nation. It
was the fraudulent implementation of subsidy that Nigerians were fundamentally
opposed to, and not the subsidy itself.
“So the decision to retain
subsidy, we believe, is in the overall interest of Nigerians. It is to also
ensure we don’t put unnecessary burden on our people,” Abdullahi stated.
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