Atiku’s fuel subsidy pledge shows serious ignorance of governance, economy — Tinubu

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Tinubu said this while receiving Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, following his re-election victory in last Saturday’s poll.

“I saw one of my opponents now say he will go back to subsidy. I read it. That is a demonstration of a serious ignorance on governance and economy,” Tinubu told the delegation.

The President recalled the fiscal condition of Nigerian states before the subsidy’s removal, saying, “Before I came here, 27 states are unable to pay salaries, not to even talk of pensioners, salary of workers. I know a man in your state that I raised who is nicknamed ‘half salary.’ They come to the federal, capping hand, unable to do anything.”

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Tinubu argued that the direct beneficiaries of the reform were ordinary Nigerians and their families, delivered through state and local government structures now able to fund basic obligations and infrastructure.

“Salary you pay for each family, they were at the local governments, they are in the states.

“Take out the president, we got every other person. Ask common men, their families, to feed, the infrastructure you embark upon on the road network, housing, school rehabilitation, hospital, healthcare pronouncements, resuscitation of healthcare, training of teachers, training of health workers to protect our vulnerable families. It’s part of your responsibility,” the President said.

Citing Adeleke’s re-election, Tinubu urged the governor to translate the mandate into governance rather than triumphalism.

He urged, “All for the reconciliation, expand your coast. That is the only way you can give thanks to our people.

“Not the way you sang it or celebrated it. It’s the way you act it. Use me as an example, I got here. God put me here. Where you are today, God put you there.

📰 Source: Punch Nigeria

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