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Peter Obi, Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the last presidential election in Nigeria has backed President Bola Tinubu on fuel subsidy removal.
Tinubu, in his inaugural speech on 29 May, 2023 openly said ‘fuel subsidy is gone.’ Two days after that, the prices of petroleum product was hiked to between N488 and N555.
Speaking on Tuesday after attending the ongoing case he instituted against Tinubu at the presidential tribunal, Obi said Judicial correspondents ambushed him at the entrance of the court and demanded that he should talk to them.
Obi said when he told them he did not speak on the matter before the court, they insisted that he should comment on the subsidy removal, which the government representatives were touting that he was in support of.
Obi, on his twitter handle said “Reacting, I told them that I’ve actually been in support of the removal of subsidies right from the President Goodluck Jonathan era, when I was a member of the Economic Management team.
“If you have followed me very well right from the time I was a member of Jonathan’s economic management team, I consistently maintained that subsidy should be removed because I see it as organized crime.
