Presidency, Atiku bicker over subsidy removal

Atiku politicizing nation’s economy with his flip-flops on subsidy – Presidency Replying him last night, Sunday Dare, the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Public Communications, said in a statement that Atiku had earlier called for the removal of petrol subsidy, describing the regime as unsustainable, opaque and prone to corruption Titled “Atiku’s Subsidy U-Turn: The Bankruptcy of Desperate Ambition, “ Dare said: “In the architecture of modern political opportunism, few spectacles rival the breathtaking hypocrisy of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s recent policy pivot.

Whether government calls it subsidy, under-recovery, shortfall or energy security, public resources were being used to bridge a gap between economic cost and the price at which petrol was sold.•100million Tinubus can’t stop me — Atiku •Ex-VP politicising economy with flip-flops on subsidy—Presidency By Johnbosco Agbakwuru & Omeiza Ajayi ABUJA—Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has declared that no amount of resistance from President Bola Tinubu or “millions of his gang of economic jesters” could stop him from restoring a targeted fuel subsidy to Nigerians, accusing the administration of dressing up subsidy removal as reform while quietly extending fiscal concessions to oil investors.