Atiku’s aide slams Tinubu’s minister over ‘cheap petrol’ claims

Paul Ibe, media adjutant to the African Democratic Congress, ADC, statesmanlike candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has slammed the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Oil, Heineken Lokpobiri, implicit his assertion that petrol is cheaper successful Nigeria than successful the United States.

In a station connected X connected Wednesday, Ibe stated that nominal pump prices bash not supply a meaningful measurement of affordability without considering income and purchasing power.

His remark came aft Lokpobiri defended Nigeria’s petrol pricing during an interrogation connected Channels.

DAILY POST recalls that Lokpobiri had said the state could not arbitrarily trim the terms of petrol to N1,000, N800 oregon N700 per litre due to the fact that crude lipid and refined petroleum products are traded successful the planetary market.

He was responding to questions astir wherefore Nigerians should proceed to carnivore the interaction of planetary crude prices contempt the state having crude lipid and expanding section refining capacity.

According to him, Nigeria was already benefiting from section accumulation and refining, which helium said had helped support the home pump terms beneath that of the United States.Nigeria question guides

Reacting, Ibe said...