President Bola Tinubu has received praise from Nigerian comedian Oluwaseyitan Aletile, popularly known as Seyi Law, for discontinuing the fuel subsidy.
Reports state that President Tinubu declared the end of the fuel subsidy during his inaugural address, claiming the government could no longer continue to support the long-standing practice of subsidizing Petroleum Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as fuel.
Nigerians’ lives have been profoundly impacted by this decision, which has also caused a sharp rise in the price of goods and services.
Seyi Law insisted that despite the challenges this action faces, it will ultimately be in the best interests of Nigerians.
The comedian pointed out that the fuel subsidy should have been eliminated sooner.
He remarked that had it been removed in 2012, during Goodluck Jonathan’s presidency—when the former opposition party, led by Tinubu, protested against it, Nigerians would have already been liberated from this financial burden.
“Fuel subsidy should have been long gone. If it had gone in 2012, we would have gone through the pain process, and by now, we would have been healing.
“In 2012, I was the only celebrity that went on stage to kick against the anti-fuel subsidy movement. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala came out to say that the nation could not afford to pay salaries,” Daily Post quoted the comedian saying in a recent interview.
“We were borrowing to pay salaries,” he quoted Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, saying.
Published by Ejoh Caleb
