Fuel subsidy removal: How I made Ogun people protest against Obasanjo – Oshiomhole

Edo North Senator, Adams Oshiomhole, has recounted however helium organised the residents of Ogun State to protestation against substance subsidy removal during the medication of erstwhile President Olusegun Obasanjo due to the fact that helium feared the proceeds would beryllium wasted done corruption.

Oshiomhole made the disclosure during the seventh nationalist sermon organised by The Companion, an relation of Muslim men successful concern and the professions, astatine the University of Lagos, UNILAG.

The programme, with the taxable ‘Nigeria’s Political Landscape and The Ethno-Religious Divides’, was led by Ibrahim Shekarau, a erstwhile politician of Kano, and had Obafemi Hazmat, the lawman politician of Lagos, arsenic the peculiar impermanent of honour.

Obasanjo was the president of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007, and during that time, Oshiomhole was the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress.

During the conference, Oshiomhole recounted visiting Abeokuta, the Ogun State superior and getting radical similar Afolabi Salisu, who is the Chairman of the Senate Committee connected ICT and cyber security, to reason the removal of petrol subsidy nether Obasanjo.

Oshiomhole said helium refused to hold with removing the subsidy due to the fact that helium thought the authorities led by Obasanjo backmost past di...