Presidency Reminds Nigerians How Jonathan’s Govt Sold Petrol For N600/Ltr
In what may be an attempt to rationalize the recent hike in petrol pump price from N148 to N162 per liter, the presidency has reminded Nigerians how petrol sold for N600 per liter during the previous Goodluck Jonathan administration.
President Muhammadu Buhari’s senior media assistant, Garba Shehu, on Tuesday, urged Nigerians not to be “deceived” by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that fuel price had hit an all-time high under the present All Progressives Congress (APC) administration.
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“Don’t allow the PDP to deceive you. Amidst acute shortages, they sold petrol at N600 per litre on Easter Sunday in 2013 (See Punch published on that day),” Shehu said in a tweet.
The presidential aide stated this after some Nigerians reacting to the fuel price increase took to social media to describe the Buhari administration as “worse” when compared to the Jonathan government.
In its reaction, the PDP had warned that the Buhari administration was pushing citizens to the wall with, “its arrogant display of insensitivity and total disregard to the demands by the citizens to effect an immediate downward review in the pump price of fuel.”
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The opposition party said the “humongous hike” had “worsened the hardship being suffered by Nigerians under the Buhari administration, is in bad taste, and should be rescinded immediately.”
It added that, “It is indeed an unpardonable slap on the sensibilities of Nigerians that after running a heavily corrupt oil trade and subsidy regime, through which over N14 trillion had been allegedly frittered by its officials, the Buhari administration seeks to put the burden of high costs on innocent and already impoverished citizens.”
