‘Subsidy removal is starvation, not reform’ — Vatsa backs Atiku, urges Tinubu to rethink policy

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, successful Niger State, Hon. Jonathan Vatsa, has backed erstwhile Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s disapproval of the Federal Government’s substance subsidy removal, urging President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to reconsider the policy.

Vatsa, a erstwhile Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism successful the state, said Nigerians had been “shortchanged and reduced to nothing” by the policy, which helium alleged had worsened poorness and imposed unbearable hardship connected citizens.

In a connection issued successful Minna on Sunday titled “Let’s Take Atiku’s Message and Leave the Messenger,” Vatsa said Tinubu should absorption connected the substance of Atiku’s disapproval alternatively than his governmental identity.

“Even if you don’t similar the messenger, you should astatine slightest instrumentality the message. The full satellite knows that the subsidy removal argumentation of this authorities has failed; it has pushed Nigerians to utmost poverty,” helium argued.

According to him, the argumentation had benefited the 36 authorities governors, their families, elected governmental bureau holders and gove...