The Presidential Campaign Organisation of the Allied People’s Movement, has described the 30-Day fuel discount announced by the All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government as offensive and provocative attempt to beguile Nigerians.
APM in a statement by Director, Strategic Communications of Makinde-Daura Presidential Campaign Organisation (MDPCO), said the discount amounted to only N60 of the excessive N1,400 per liter pump price of fuel at NNPC filling stations.
“It is a slap on the face of the suffering citizens that at the time they expected an impactful reduction in the astronomically high pump price of petrol, the Tinubu government came out on national media to announce an infinitesimal and ‘microscopic’ discount of N60,” the campaign council stated.
It questioned why the Tinubu administration that is quick to increase the price of petrol by up to 733 percent, in a desperate attempt to score a cheap political point, “just because elections are around the corner,” gave Nigerians only N60 reduction.
“It is indeed appalling that a government that deliberately caused an inexplicable increase in the pump of petrol is now embarking on an insulting reduction that cannot add value but rather create wide division amongst the people,” APM said.
The party added that for the fact that the reduction would only be on scantly located NNPC owned retail filling stations, and for a period of one month shows that the Tinubu administration is bereft of solutions to the pains his sudden removal of fuel subsidy has inflicted on Nigerians.
“Moreover, the offer to sell our crude oil to domestic refineries at dollar rate of $80 per barrel is distasteful and offensive to our status as an oil producing nation,” the MDPCO stated, but said that Nigerians would not be swayed by the tokism to change their revolve to vote out the Tinubu-led APC administration in January, 2027.
“What Nigerians desired and deserve is an impactful reduction in fuel price and not this dishonest act to hoodwink citizens ahead of the 2027 general elections,” APM stated.
