Phrank Shaibu, Special Assistant on Public Communication to
former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has dared the All Progressives
Congress-led Federal Government to publish the landing cost of petrol as well
as the pricing template being used by the government to keep the cost of petrol
at less than N640 per litre.
Shaibu stated this in a statement in reaction to a press
release by the National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress
(APC), Felix Morka.
He noted the government’s claim that the petroleum sector
had been deregulated was a fat lie and that subsidy was still being paid.
He added, “The Petroleum Industry Act mandates the total
deregulation of the petroleum sector. A deregulated regime has no room for
price control. If the APC is saying subsidy is not back, they should explain
how petrol is still being sold at less than N650 per litre when the
international price of crude oil is about $94 per barrel and the exchange rate
on the I&E Window is N780/$1 and N1,000/$1 on the parallel market.
“How is it that diesel which has been deregulated currently
costs about N1,000 per litre while petrol is over 25% less? Let the APC explain
and stop peddling lies.”
Shaibu said the APC-led government had continually admitted
failure by going ahead to sack and detain some of former President Muhammadu
Buhari’s appointees.
He said, “The same APC that praised Godwin Emefiele for
eight years and deceived Nigerians with propaganda and their so-called
agricultural revolution have gone ahead to sack the same Emefiele and detain
him for four months.
“The same APC that claimed to have fought corruption have
now gone ahead to detain the man in charge of the anti-corruption war,
Abdulrasheed Bawa, for four months. You can see that these people are nothing
but barefaced liars and deceivers.
“Tinubu claimed he wanted to cut the cost of governance and
yet appointed 48 ministers out of which 10 are from his region. Yet the APC
claims he is running a fair administration. This is laughable. Adams Oshiomhole
even said last month that Tinubu inherited a bad situation. How can a maggot
criticise the fly that gave birth to it?”
Atiku’s aide asked the APC to do more on governance rather than
propaganda, adding that the patience of Nigerians was already running out.
“Wale Edun said recently that the last time Nigeria’s
economy did well was 10 years ago. That is an admission of the failure that the
APC represents. Under the watch of that blood-sucking party, poverty has
reached unimaginable heights. Nigeria has even lost its crown as the largest
producer of oil in Africa. What a shame,” Shaibu said.
He said Tinubu ought to apologise to Nigerians for lying
about a proposed meeting with United States President Joe Biden instead of
trying to offer lame excuses.
“So, a three-minute ‘meet and greet’ on the sidelines of the
G20 summit in India is what the APC is now describing as a ‘meeting of Biden
and Tinubu’? This is indeed shameful. The statement from the Presidency said
the meeting would take place on the sidelines of UNGA in New York.
“It is obvious the so-called meeting only existed in the
minds of Tinubu and his paid writers. He left UNGA empty-handed and travelled
to Paris without even informing Nigerians of his whereabouts. What a joke.”
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