Nigeria: Atiku's Petrol Subsidy Proposal Fails the Economic Test and Raises More Questions Than Answers

Nigeria: Atiku's Petrol Subsidy Proposal Fails the Economic Test and Raises More Questions Than Answers

Any presidential candidate promising to restore petrol subsidy without publishing its cost, funding source and safeguards is not presenting an economic policy. He is selling an illusion to a distressed electorate.

“Economic Policy Cannot Be Reduced To Election-Season Promises” — APC Chair Yilwatda Rejects Atiku’s Plan To Restore Fuel Subsidy

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, has criticised former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar’s proposal to reverse the removal of petrol subsidy if elected president in 2027, warning that such a major economic decision cannot be reduced to what he described as an election-season promise. Yilwatda, in a statement issued on Monday in Abuja by his Special Adviser on Media and Information Strategy, Abimbola Tooki, …

APC Chairman Yilwatda Rejects Atiku’s Plan to Restore Petrol Subsidy

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, has criticised former Vice-President Atiku....

Is Atiku’s promise to restore fuel subsidy the lifeline Nigerians have waited for?

The presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, in the 2027 general elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has done what the Tinubu administration refuses to do: listen to the suffering of ordinary Nigerians. Atiku’s vow to restore the fuel subsidy recklessly scrapped by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on May 29, 2023, is the first real … The post Is Atiku’s promise to restore fuel subsidy the lifeline Nigerians have waited for? appea…