Atiku: I’ll restore subsidy to cut your costs, not to feed Tinubu and friends
By Omeiza Ajayi ABUJA: Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress ADC, Atiku Abubakar, has again insisted that his proposed petroleum intervention is not a return to Nigeria’s discredited import-subsidy regime, but targeted support for domestic production designed to reduce the cost of living rather than feed President Bola Tinubu and his allies.
Shaibu explained that “what Atiku proposes is a targeted, capped, transparently budgeted and independently audited subsidy that supports domestic refining and production, with measurable exit conditions built in from day one.
This was as he disowned comments credited to one of his close aides over the framing of his proposed fuel subsidy policy, declaring that no spokesperson has the right to redefine a position he has already made clear.
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