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SATANIC AND OUTRAGEOUS INCREASE ON PRICE OF PETROL by PMB/APC GOVERNMENT



PRESS STATEMENT

ON

SATANIC AND OUTRAGEOUS INCREASE ON PRICE OF PETROL

By

Femi Aborisade, Esq.

The full deregulation of the pricing of petroleum products which has led to the increase in the prices of petrol from the official rate of N86.50 per litre to between N135 and N145 per litre shows that the Buhari/APC Administration is completely anti-people. The Nigerian people should insist that Buhari and the APC have lost the legitimacy to continue to rule. It is clear that the Buhari/APC administration has been hijacked by the cabal in the oil sector. Contrary to Buhari’s declaration that “I belong to everybody. I belong to nobody”, Buhari has shown that he actually belongs to the oil cabal, the politicians who have investment in the oil sector and Western Imperialism who have hijacked him. Buhari is against the welfare interest of ordinary Nigerians.

 

The point must be made abundantly clear that unless Buhari and the APC are forced out of power by democratic, peaceful mass actions by the labour movement and other democratic organizations against unpopular government policies, the official policy of absolute reliance on importation of petroleum products linked to the black market exchange rate over which government has no control would plunge the masses into untold hardship. 

 

Buhari and the APC rode to power on the crest of the wave of popular opposition to increases in the prices of petroleum products under the Jonathan Administration. APC members and leaders joined and sponsored mass protests against increases in the prices of petroleum products under the PDP administration. In the early part of his administration, Buhari had declared:

 

"When people ask you to remove subsidy ask them to define it. Who is subsidizing who? Let me make it clear. These people are gleefully saying 'remove subsidy' ....They want petrol to cost N500 per litre....If you are earning N20,000 per month and you are living in Lagos or Ibadan, the cost of transport to work and back, the cost of food. You cannot control the market women they have to pay what transporters charge them. But I am thinking more than half the population of Nigeria virtually cannot afford to live...Where will they get the money to go to work? How can they feed their families? How can they pay rent."

 

We should ask President Buhari, why the sudden change of attitude? In the midst of 45% rise in electricity tariff, increases in school fees in Federal Government owned institutions, in the absence of any social security schemes for the masses, the Buhari/APC administration policy is a life-annihilating pill. As President Buhari once said, “If Nigerians don’t kill corruption, corruption will kill Nigeria”. In the same token, if poor people of Nigeria don’t send Buhari/APC out of power, Buhari/APC will kill ordinary Nigerians. Rather than kill ordinary people, let government kill corruption in the oil industry, which has prevented domestic processing of crude for domestic consumption of petroleum products.

 

Femi Aborisade, Esq.
13 May 2015.

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