Former member of the house for representatives and chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Honourable Patrick Obahiagbon has added his voice to reactions from across the country, over the decision of President Bola Tinubu to remove the government’s Subsidy on the premium motor spirit, also known as petrol.
Obahiagbon, who spoke during an interview
with vanguard newspaper, when asked to react to the most consequential of the
decisions made by the tinubu led administration so far, said;
“Am maniacally bewildered that the righteous
position of Mr President on subsidy has generated some verbal animadversion
from some censorious analysts. What did the President say that was new? Mr
President only gave a Presidential obiter dictum to what was already a
self-fulfilling reality. It just goes to demonstrate the fact that we are our
problems in this country.” (Most people knew subsidy would be removed so
President Tinubu merely did the obvious)
Further asked if he supports those who thing
that Tinubu shouldn’t have said the subsidy is gone, as that appears to have
created chaos and panic.
He added that;
“It verges on hair-splitting and sciamachy for critiques to go to town calumniating Mr President as being culpable for the pandemonium that greeted his statement when he said at the presidential inauguration that the regime on subsidy has come to an end. He was only echoing a legal reality that the Buhari government has enthroned. Has there not been regular chaos in this aspect of our lives before Mr President’s statement?
There was no basis for the chaos following his speech since this was a
situation the nation was well aware of. Let us blame our mephistophelian
profiteers, philistine carpet baggers and prebendal homo-sapiens.
What we need right now is an audacious leader
capable of providing himself as a political minesweeper and taking the big
decisions. So from that point of view, Mr President’s asseveration on the
subsidy indaba was supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”. (What he means is that
Tinubu’s decision on subsidy is great but we should blame profiteers for the
initial chaos).
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