The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Sports, Obinna Ogba, told reporters on Thursday that the price hike indicated that the Buhari regime was insensitive to the plight of Nigerians.
He said, “The increases in electricity tariff and fuel price at a time the economy was yet to recover from the deadly effects of COVID-19 showed that the government is highly insensitive.
“The country and indeed the whole world is facing serious problem right now because of the coronavirus pandemic. Therefore, these increases are not good at all. It is adding salt to injury.”
Also on Thursday, a former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Timi Frank, urged the leadership of the organised labour in Nigeria to mobilise and shut down the country in reaction to astronomical hike in fuel price and electricity tariff.
Buhari govt worse than military – Ekiti PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State on Thursday condemned the hike in petrol price without consideration for the poor masses, saying it was indicative that the Buhari-led All Progressives Congress government was worse than military regime.
The factional PDP State Chairman, Bisi Kolawole, who spoke through the faction’s Publicity Secretary, Raphael Adeyanju, in Ado Ekiti, said, “It is only a government that is sadistic and thinks less of its citizens’ welfare that would bring such a harsh policy under a debilitating economy caused by coronavirus pandemic.
“This is an eye opener for all Nigerians that the APC government was a mistake. It should be voted out in 2023, because no power is greater than the will of the people.”
But the APC State Publicity Secretary, Ade Ajayi, said Buhari had been devising ways to clear the mess left by the 16 years of PDP misrule in the country, urging Nigerians not to listen to the opposition, which he said was ignorant of the running of petrol economy.
Ajayi said, “The PDP is only acting and basing its criticisms on ignorance.
The petrol prices are not determined by government solel; it is by market demand and supply forces.
“This government is trying to clear the mess left by the PDP government and gradually, we would see the gains.
“So, the PDP should stop this shameful act, because Nigerians won’t listen to its noise.”
