02 August 2024
An activist and chieftain of the Labour Party, Dr. Yunusa Tanko, has called on President Bola Tinubu to peg the price of petrol at #200 per litre and be free from the ongoing display of rage and anger by aggrieved Nigerians protesting against bad governance.
Tanko, who was a the chief spokesperson for Peter Obi and Datti Baba’s presidential campaign council in the 2023 poll, believes that the display of affluence and wasteful expenditure by politicians is part of the reason Nigerians have taken to the streets against President Tinubu’s administration.
According to him: “The easiest way out of the protest that would not escalate is for the government to announce as quickly as possible that the prices of fuel have been brought down to ₦150 or ₦200 because that is the nucleus of all the trouble.
“That was the reason why Dangote came out to talk about the refusal of the federal government to sell crude oil to him to refine because, obviously, if he is refining crude oil, the prices of fuel would definitely crash.
“That was why he was saying that the cabal in the oil industry is more severe than in the political circle.
“The people are also aware that if you can be paying our legislators this humongous amount of money, if you can buy a plane for yourself, if you can build an apartment for the vice president at three times the cost of what it was initially paid for, and if you can just buy jeeps, where did you get the money from? It means you have relegated their interests.
“These are very serious and weighty allegations against the government, and they cannot run away from it. So they should feel the pain of the ordinary people by reducing fuel price”
