Shelve Plans to Increase Fuel Pump Price, ADP Tells FG, Buhari
Federal Government led by President Muhammadu
Buhari to jettison any plan to further increase the fuel
pump price.
In a statement by the party's spokesman for Lagos,
Prince Adelaja Adeoye on Friday, he said the ripple effect
of such increment will be disastrous, stating that
Nigerians are still facing difficulties with the current
official pump price.
ADP recalls that one of the promises of this current
government was that they will reduce the fuel pump
price from N87 to N45 but eventually raised it by over
40% to the astonishment of all Nigerians. The party says
that it is shocked that after the initial increase, another
increase is been mooted around government quarters
based on the recently discovered landing cost of N171
for petrol.
The party said, it is pitiful that Nigerians fell for the lies
and deceit that characterized the APC campaigns where
they promised that they would fix Nigeria's refineries and
reduce the fuel price. ADP cautioned Buhari not to
subject Nigerians to another round of hardship by
increasing fuel pump price, highlighting that the same
Buhari had said there was nothing like subsidy, ended up
paying it and eventually claimed to have removed the
subsidy.
ADP said as part of their own plan if given the chance to
govern, that they will concentrate on pragmatic and
workable strategies that will solve the problems once
and for all but not at the expense of the Nigerian people.
“The ADP will never deceive Nigerians but will always
run an open transparent government where all Nigerians
will be involved in,” Adelaja said. The party also says
that the opaque nature of the activities of the NNPC is
the main problem bedeviling it.
The party says that governance is supposed to be geared
towards the alleviation of the sufferings of the people
and not to further impoverish them. The party reiterates
its commitment to be that alternative for Nigerians and
is ready for governance unlike the Buhari led
government.
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