We’ve benefited greatly from fuel subsidy removal – Kwara Gov, Abdulrazaq

Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has said that the assorted states of the federation person benefited from the removal of substance subsidy by President Bola Tinubu since May 29, 2023.

AbdulRazaq, who is besides the politician of Kwara State, made this remark connected Friday in Lagos erstwhile the NGF, led by Vice President Kashim Shettima, paid a Sallah homage astatine Tinubu’s Lagos residence.

He was speaking on President Tinubu’s bold determination to region substance subsidies since his inauguration successful 2023.

According to him: “I retrieve we were successful China erstwhile I got a telephone from the NSA and DSS DG to beryllium informed that lipid subsidy would beryllium removed and determination is nary going back.

“We went into panic mode, and I sent a connection to my workfellow governors, and cipher wanted to perceive that. 

“I gathered my colleagues and decided to publication an assignment with you to registry our disagreement with the policy, but erstwhile the president invited america for dinner, we sat and listened to his imaginativeness for the state and astatine the extremity of his speech, we couldn’t adjacent bring up the topic. We didn’t eve...