The Peoples Democratic Party has described the new hike within the pump price of petrol from N145 to N151 per litre as anti-people with the power to plunge the state into chaos.
The opposition party during a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbodiyan, on Wednesday said it wondered why the govt was deliberately trying to form life unbearable for citizens handling economic loses from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The PDP said, “It is distressing that the APC administration increased the value of essential commodities at the time the leadership of other countries are offering palliatives to their citizens to cushion the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. it's instructive to feature that our nation is doomed under the APC watch.
“We know that the APC is an unfeeling party but it's indeed shocking that it could attend the extent of approving such a hike at this trying time, when many Nigerians are struggling to afford staple foods and other necessities of life.
“Moreover, the APC and its government have did not allow an open investigation into allegations of fuel price overcharge also because the fraudulent subsidy regime through which over N14 trillion had allegedly been frittered by unscrupulous individuals within the APC.
“Our fear is that the APC is pushing Nigerians to the wall with its obnoxious and anti-people proclivities and that we caution that no-one should misinterpret the peaceful and law-abiding nature of Nigerians as a symbol of weakness.
“Our party therefore restates our turn the National Assembly to save lots of the state by calling the APC and its administration to order before they plunge our nation into chaos.”
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