Yes, Peter Obi has supported the removal of the corrupt and unsustainable petrol subsidy system. But saying that automatically means fuel would sell at exactly the same price under Obi is pure speculation.
Here is a simple example:
Imagine two landlords both agree that a leaking roof must be removed.
Landlord A removes the roof overnight without preparing another shelter, and everyone inside gets soaked by the rain.
Landlord B prepares a temporary shelter, fixes the drainage, provides protection and then removes the damaged roof.
Did both of them agree that the old roof should be removed? Yes.
Did they handle the removal the same way? No.
That is the point Obi supporters are making.
Peter Obi's argument has been that Nigeria should remove waste and corruption, but also increase local production, reduce the cost of governance, secure the country, support productive sectors and cushion the effects of difficult economic reforms.
So the real question is not simply:
“Subsidy or no subsidy?”
The real questions are:
What do you do before removing it?
How do you manage the consequences?
What alternatives do you provide?
How do you reduce the suffering of ordinary Nigerians?
How do you stop Nigerians from paying international prices for fuel when Nigeria is an oil-producing country?
Supporting the removal of a bad subsidy system does not mean supporting poor planning, poor timing or poor implementation.
So no, it is not hypocrisy to support reform and still criticise how that reform was executed.
Obi can support removing subsidy. Tinubu can remove subsidy. Yet Nigerians can still legitimately judge the two men differently based on how they would manage the economy before, during and after that decision.
That is called accountability—not hypocrisy.
@OnyeUwaoma88 The problem some of you have is to think you're doing PO a favour by supporting him.
Stop the entitlement mentality, PO is spending his money to make your life better not to enrich himself. The least you can do is to give your little sacrifice. Sponsor yourself in supporting him.
@guzu_p Whatever PO has done for her, the woman should be commended for supporting PO in his political career, a great sacrifice! If you're married you will understand this statement.
That you support PO does not give u the right to talk to his innocent wife this way.
@guzu_p You have no right to tell a man how to run his family. No, use that energy to achieve what the 'simp' has achieved which I know is very impossible.
Just imagine this data boy denigrating someone's wife because she is living her life.
@guzu_p U$eless idiots who are quick to identify PO's weakness but can't fathom the seriousness/cause of their own failures.
PO who is a fulfilled man shouldn't be disturbing himself trying to save these shallow ingrates.
@aniky_bee You're very u$elesz and stupi+d. PO defeated your candidate in Lagos, deal with that.
The day you guys will meet that thing you have been craving for, nobody will tell you. Just continue
@Enwagboso Why not take these your allegations to efcc, shameless clown?
PO has conquered greed, this quality alone edges your candidate and others out.