Rights activist and former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, has said that the Premium Motor Spirit, popularly known as petrol, was not cheap before the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government.
Sowore in a post on his Facebook page Saturday night said the term “subsidy removal was being incorrectly put” to push more Nigerians into economic hardship.
The convener of #RevolutionNow noted that the policy had reduced the purchasing power of Nigerians who had just voted new leaders into office.
“I’ve never heard anything like this before. A policy such as the total deregulation of the Nigerian oil sector which is popularly and incorrectly referred to as subsidy removal has brought untold hardship on our people, and as a result, gasoline (petrol) which was actually before now too expensive was severely manipulated so that the petrol is now so expensive,” Sowore said.
He said an average Nigerian had to pay…