Obasanjo disclosed this in a recent interview with the
Financial Times.
He faulted how Tinubu’s administration removed fuel
subsidies.
According to him, the government should have put measures in
place before the fuel subsidy removal.
“There’s a lot of work that needs to be done. Not just wake
up one morning and say you removed the subsidy.
“Because of inflation, the subsidy that we have removed is
not gone. It has come back,” the former President stressed.
He said there must be investor confidence in Nigeria.
“You have to go from transactional economy to
transformational economy”, he added.
His remark comes amid the ongoing hunger protests in
Nigeria.
The protests, which commenced on Thursday, entered day 5 on
Monday with a major demand for the return of the fuel subsidy regime.
However, President Tinubu in his Sunday broadcast while
appealing to protesters to suspend demonstrations, said his administration’s
decision to remove fuel subsidy is painful but necessary as it constituted a
noose around the economic “jugular of our Nation and impeded our economic
development and progress.”
Core inflation increased to an
all-time high of 34.19 percent and 40.87 percent in June 2024, according to the
National Bureau of Statistics.
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