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Mr Kenneth Okonkwo, the spokesperson for the statesmanlike campaigner of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Atiku Abubakar, has asserted that substance subsidy should not beryllium successful Nigeria.
During his quality connected Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, Okonkwo, however, criticised the timing of substance subsidy removal by the President Bola Tinubu administration, describing it arsenic ill-conceived.
He highlighted that hunger and poorness proceed to afflict much than 35 cardinal Nigerians who are struggling to unafraid capable food.
Okonkwo further emphasised that the existent minimum wage is insufficient, arsenic it tin lone screen the outgo of fractional a vessel of substance for civilian servants who ain vehicles with a 100-litre petrol tank.
He besides said it is unrealistic to assertion that ostentation is decreasing erstwhile the prices of goods and services proceed to rise.
He said: “Let america archetypal of each analyse wherever Nigeria is today, truthful that we volition admit the unsustainability of Tinubu’s ill-advised removal of subsidy.
“The outgo of substance per litre today is astir N1,300. A Nigerian who has a conveyance with a 100-litr...
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