Fuel scarcity in Nigeria under:
OBJ: 15% (periodic, strike-led)
Yar’Adua: 10% (relative stability)
GEJ: 40% (2012 & 2015 crises)
Buhari: 70% (frequent shortages)
BAT: 0% (No scarcity)
Tinubu is the only president in Nigeria’s history without fuel scarcity.
You see why subsidy always favour the rich? With subsidy he will save N52k which means FG is paying 52k on his behalf weekly. In a year, it becomes N2.7m.
For a family with 2 or 3 SUVs it becomes 6m+
How does this compare to the poor guy riding bicycle to the farm in the rural areas or the poor farmer who only buys 5 litres in his motorcycle.
The concept of blanket subsidy has never been for the poor. It is a transfer of wealth to the rich. He is eager to save N52k on a car. The rich man saves N250k on his convoy.
This is why all we have to show for 53 years of petrol subsidy is poverty and infrastructure deficit. If Nigerians cared about the poor, they would have resisted the removal of subsidy on Kerosene but the rich doesn't use kerosene.
Innalillahi wa inna ilaihirrajiun 💔😭
A young lady was dropped somewhere very close to my place of work last week (she looks like a mad woman) she looks sick and eventually died on Saturday. I came to work this morning and her dead body is still here 💔😭
Like no one is doing anything about it?mind you it’s near a hospital
Hajiya Hadiza Bala Usman has been all up and doing for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, so I genuinely wonder how she sleeps at night knowing that the very person who played a significant role in getting her to where she is today (Elrufai) is now being persecuted by the same person she has devoted herself to promoting (Tinubu). I am genuinely curious, how do these people reconcile such contradictions within themselves? How do you passionately promote somebody that goes after the very first person that literally opened the door for you and made you who you are today? What kind of conscience makes that easy to live with?
#copied
"Dangote refinery would have had no way of surviving without the removal of the fuel subsidy." — Ogho Okiti, Chief Executive Officer of ThinkBusiness Africa Ltd👇🔥
Oga , instead of this long grammar, drive out , you alone and ask an average person in wuse mkt, or utako, or gudu in abuja how there lives were before and after subsidy removal.
*Atiku’s Subsidy U-Turn: The Bankruptcy of Desperate Ambition*
In the architecture of modern political opportunism, few spectacles rival the breathtaking hypocrisy of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s recent policy pivot.
To watch a self-styled statesman—who less than four years ago cast himself as an uncompromising apostle of market-driven reform—scramble to promise the reintroduction of petrol subsidies is nothing short of political apostasy.
This isn't merely a tactical policy disagreement; it is a sordid, stingy manipulation of the public psyche, designed to hoodwink unsuspecting citizens through an unpardonable exploitation of temporary economic pain.
Atiku’s vacillation stands as a monument to a fading presidential ambition gone completely awry, exposing a man willing to burn down national economic stability for a fleeting headline.
*A Chronicle of Political Duplicity*
Let us refresh the collective memory of the Nigerian electorate, which Atiku so cynically presumes to be short. During the intense build-up to the 2023 general election, Atiku made the total removal of the fuel subsidy the absolute cornerstone of his economic manifesto.
He argued with unyielding conviction—repeatedly echoed across national media platforms, including broad coverage by outlets like Premium Times and The Punch—that the opaque, corruption-ridden import subsidy regime was bleeding the nation dry, enriching a parasitic cabal, and mortgaging the future of generations unborn.
Yet, as the political calendar ticks toward the next electoral cycle and the reality of his diminished prospects sets in, Atiku has engineered a shameless volte-face. The architect of yesterday's fiscal discipline has overnight transformed into the high priest of populist pandering.
This radical reversal is the ultimate hallmark of a desperate politician who cares less about long-term fiscal sustainability and more about capturing power by any means necessary. It is a cynical bet that Nigerians have forgotten his own economic doctrine—a scorched-earth strategy that weaponizes current hardships against the very structural reforms he once championed.
*The Desperation of a Fading Ambition*
Atiku’s career has long been shadowed by the relentless pursuit of the elusive presidency, an ambition that has increasingly degenerated into a reflex of contrarian posturing. When an administration undertakes the tortuous, necessary surgery of dismantling an unsustainable subsidy regime—a framework legally sealed by the Petroleum Industry Act—it inevitably invites short-term adjustment pains.
Rather than offering statesmanlike support or constructive alternatives, Atiku has chosen the path of political opportunism. His visible annoyance at the ongoing recovery across various sectors of our national life is telling.
The emergence of domestic refining capacity, the liberation of trillions of naira into the Federation Account for sub-national infrastructural development, and the steady weaning of the Nigerian economy from life-support leakages are milestones that threaten his political narrative. By promising to roll back these hard-won gains, Atiku reveals a transactional worldview: if he cannot rule, he would rather preside over ruins.
*A Sordid Rebuttal to Economic Regression*
To entertain Atiku’s hollow promise is to invite national economic suicide. The old import subsidy regime was not merely a pricing mechanism; it was a black hole of rent-seeking, round-tripping, and monumental corruption that starved health, education, and infrastructure of vital capital.
Restoring it would instantly sabotage the nascent renaissance of local refining, crush private sector confidence, and plunge the country back into chronic foreign exchange haemorrhage. Nigerians must reject this sordid narrative of regression.
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