2027: Atiku clarifies fuel subsidy position after aide’s ‘restore, remove later’ comment

Former Vice President and statesmanlike campaigner of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Atiku Abubakar, has clarified his presumption connected his connection to reconstruct substance subsidy if elected successful 2027.
In a connection by his media squad connected Tuesday, Atiku said his connection was aimed astatine reducing the outgo of surviving for mean Nigerians.

Recall that a remark attributed to 1 of his media aides, Paul Ibe, had suggested that an Atiku administration, if elected, would “restore substance subsidy and region it later.”

However, Atiku’s media squad said Ibe’s remark was “an unauthorised, imprecise and materially misleading characterisation of Atiku’s argumentation position,” stressing that nary spokesperson has the latitude to redefine, embellish oregon improvise connected a argumentation already intelligibly articulated by the candidate.

“For the avoidance of doubt, argumentation belongs to the candidate, not the spokesperson. Our work arsenic communicators is to explicate Atiku’s presumption accurately, not make formulations susceptible of confusing Nigerians oregon handing opponents convenient talking points.

“Atiku has ne'er projected restoring the import-subs...