Atiku and politics of fuel subsidy

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President and presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has stirred the hornet’s nest with his rhetoric on fuel subsidy. He is reported as saying that if he gets elected as Nigeria’s President in 2027, he will bring back subsidy on fuel. That means that he would reverse the policy of the Bola Tinubu presidency on the ticklish subject. President Tinubu was very clearheaded about this issue and did not waste any time before declaring, soon after his ascension of the presidency that “subsidy is gone.” Since then there has been rivers of cash flowing into the coffers of the Federal, State…