freeborn02:


When you were placing religion over common sense and decided to vote for Muslim Muslim presidency, you didn't know something like this would happen, right?

I'm so happy that you Yorubas and Muslims are the worst hit by the outcome of your Muslim Muslim presidency.

Lordsonn:
The government is targeting all opposing voices.
Nigerians are suffering and have the right to complain

Paraman:
Nah normal thing in Nigeria. It happened under Buhari, Jonathan, Yardua and OBJ too.

Midehi3:

One day one day, keep it up

freeborn02:


You sound uninformed. If the current APC muslim-muslim candidates come up again in 2027, the northern and yoruba Muslims will still choose it above common sense.

If the president is a northerner, no Islamic cleric will attack him. Instead, they will say it.is the will of allah.

If you think stupid religion sentiment has left the north, then you should start reversing your thoughts.

Angelfrost:


Please, stop being naive.

Which yeye hardship is uniting whom?!! Lol.

They are simply acting at the behest of their Northern elders who hate to see a Southerner in that office.

They did the exact same nonsense while Jonathan was in power.

Buhari was Million times worse and more clueless than Jonathan, yet they never coughed or United...!


They should keep fooling themselves and gullible Nigerians who take them seriously.

Kaiser20:
Tinubu wanted to used the removal of fuel subsidy to demonstrate action president ,but he totally miscalculated the whole idea
Tinubu is known to always take action before reasons.

shortgun:
The awakening taking place in Northern Nigeria is heart warming. Tinubu has succeeded in uniting the northern Christians and Muslims with bad Governance and mismanagement of the economy, they have now realised that bad leadership affects everyone irrespective of their faith.
Gone are the days when Northerners are deceived in the name of religion by their religious and political leaders and told to support candidates on religious grounds. Northern Muslims have become increasingly vocal about elections not being an Islamic principle but a manipulative concept that keeps them impoverished.

shortgun:

The most toxic critic of Jonathans administration was Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a follow Southerner not any Northerner.
Also, Northerners protested hardship during Buhari's years as president but there's no president in the history of Nigeria who suffered more humiliation and mockery than Good luckJonathan in the hands of Bola AhmedTinubu..a follow southerner

shortgun:
The awakening taking place in Northern Nigeria is heart warming. Tinubu has succeeded in uniting the northern Christians and Muslims with bad Governance and mismanagement of the economy, they have now realised that bad leadership affects everyone irrespective of their faith.
Gone are the days when Northerners are deceived in the name of religion by their religious and political leaders and told to support candidates on religious grounds. Northern Muslims have become increasingly vocal about elections not being an Islamic principle but a manipulative concept that keeps them impoverished.

sulaak:


The removal of fuel subsidies was a national policy by oil political parties during the last election. In fact, it was Buhari who removed fuel subsidies in 2023.

shortgun:
The awakening taking place in Northern Nigeria is heart warming. Tinubu has succeeded in uniting the northern Christians and Muslims with bad Governance and mismanagement of the economy, they have now realised that bad leadership affects everyone irrespective of their faith.
Gone are the days when Northerners are deceived in the name of religion by their religious and political leaders and told to support candidates on religious grounds. Northern Muslims have become increasingly vocal about elections not being an Islamic principle but a manipulative concept that keeps them impoverished.

Lastmessenger2:
I'm sure the sss are immune to the inflation. Foolish people

AntiChristian:
Islamic Clerics don't critique the leaders openly!

And it seems the cleric didn't understand that the former administration didn't budget for subsidy!

May Allah grant us knowledge, wisdom and understanding!

jaxxy:


I should be asking u

Or are u saying the Islamic cleric is brainless?

Cos I am supporting him on his position.

Elibaba1:


But they are free to criticize a Christian President or a southerner abi? Hypocrisy ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

benjaminlawson:


I don't want us to subscribe to the insinuation that it is Bihari that remove fuel subsidy. Bihari planed to remove it in December 2022, but recline the decision because of hardship. If you don't have short memory, you will realize that the subsidy suppose to have ended on jude 30the of last year, but if he is not the one, why did he ended it 29th of May, the day he was swore in. Even if the past administration did not make provision to cover the whole of last year, why cant he make supplementary budget to cover the rest of the year afterwards he made supplementary budget to buy cars, yatch, renovation of unoccupied houses in Lagos and other white elephant expenditure. Also, if he is concerned with the welfare of masses he would have acted the same way former President Yaradua of blessed memory behaved. Obasanjo increased fuel price 2 days before leaving office, but the man of people came and reversed it back. This is man of people. So no one should mislead masses that it was Buhari that remove the subsidy. Yoruba adage says " e ni a konika to gba o fe tinure se ni" means any who was taught to behave wickedly, have wicked within himself.

FACT CHECK: Did Buhari’s administration remove the diesel subsidy as Garba Shehu claimed?


On Monday, Garba Shehu, ex-spokesperson of former President Muhammadu Buhari, claimed that the last administration removed diesel subsidy.

Speaking on why the Buhari administration failed to remove the petrol subsidy while in office, Shehu said the decision was taken to prevent any form of insurrection that could cost the All Progressives Congress (APC) the 2023 elections.

In addition, he said other subsidies, notably diesel subsidy, were eliminated by the Buhari administration.

“The massive electricity subsidy. The fraudulent fertiliser subsidy. Hajj/Christian pilgrim subsidies. Remember them? The diesel subsidy. The aviation fuel subsidy. LPFO. Kerosene,” Shehu said.

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“Cooking gas and the other subsidy policies we found in place, and put them firmly on the ground. Remember them?

“For those with short memories, many of those subsidies were all in place when President Buhari was elected to office in 2015: all those in place were gone by May 2023 — including the annual fertilizer subsidy that weighed 60-100 billion naira (that’s trillion naira (sic) in about 10 years — yes you read that right) heavy on the federal budget each year.”

Did Buhari’s administration remove the diesel subsidy as Shehu claimed? Here is what we found.

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VERIFICATION

On June 20, 2003, the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo increased the prices of petroleum products.

Consequently, the price of diesel was raised from N24 per litre to N38 per litre, marking the deregulation of the fuel price.

However, the declaration made by Obasanjo, less than a month into his second term in office, was met with widespread condemnation by Nigerians.

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The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) called a nationwide strike which was supported by Trade Union Congress (TUC), and civil rights groups, among others.

Furthermore, a September 2013 report by Chatham House, alluded to the elimination of subsidies for diesel in Nigeria during the Obasanjo regime.

According to the paper, titled ‘Nigeria’s Criminal Crude: International Options to Combat the Export of Stolen Oil,’ illegal refining in the Niger Delta was motivated in 2009, among other things, by the elimination of diesel subsidy during the previous Obasanjo administration.

“By most accounts, the Niger Delta has seen a boom in illegal refining since 2009 or early 2010. Likely reasons for this include a more permissive law-enforcement atmosphere following the federal government’s June 2009 declaration of amnesty for Niger Delta militants, the removal of subsidies on diesel during the Obasanjo presidency, and rising local demand,” the report reads.

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Another report, released in May 2023 by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), maintained that the diesel subsidy was removed in 2003.

The report noted that fuel subsidies began in the 1970s and became institutionalised in 1977, following the promulgation of the price control act, which made it illegal for some products (including petrol) to be sold above the regulated price.

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“Thirteen years after diesel was deregulated, kerosene subsidy was removed in 2016,” the PwC report said.

Speaking on the issue, Jide Pratt, country manager, Cotevis Energy, clarified that although the kerosene subsidy was removed during the Buhari administration, diesel subsidy had been scrapped since 2003.

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“The administration that went to remove that was in 2003. They had been pondering about it since 2000. But what went on was that he kept on adjusting petroleum prices for the three petroleum products (petrol, diesel and kerosene).”

However, he said the increase of the diesel price — as against other petroleum products — was targeted at removing the product’s price ceiling.

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“In 2003, the agreement was made that whether we like it or not, people should pay the full price for diesel,” Pratt said.

“In 2000, the policy was held back because a lot of farm produce was imported with diesel trucks. The point was that if you removed it, automatically, the cost of goods and services, inflation, would rise up. In 2003, it was eventually taken off.”

VERDICT

The claim that the Buhari administration removed the subsidy on diesel is false. It was scrapped in 2003 during Obasanjo’s tenure.

https://www.thecable.ng/fact-check-did-buharis-administration-remove-diesel-subsidy-as-garba-shehu-claimed

AntiChristian:


I am not talking to him. Na you I dey ask?

Is your brain fuse not connected when you are suffering?

nnachukz:
Just shoot the man at his balls, when they were campaigning for Muslim Muslim tickets in their mosques they never considered anything else except religion. Any APC member that complains about hunger should be hanged. Let them eat party and religion.

seborrhic:
I wouldn't call what Tinubu did on his inaugural address as lack of respect.
I would rather call it the action of a mentally unstable human being.
All other things the Sheik said about Tinubu are the the whole truth.
What he also said about the chronic docility of Nigerians is another bitter truth.
If I were a well to do or prominent person in Nigeria that is not directly affected by Tinubu's policies,I would not even bother calling out Tinubu or Nigerians.
If Nigerians despite this unprecedented level of suffering can not come out enmasse to say enough is enough,them you allow them to continue in their suffering.

FalseProphet1:

More hardship ahead.

This I have seen.

shortgun:

Just like most southerners who have never been to the North or lived among them, you all assume based on what you are made to believe that the North is made up of religious extremists and Islamic terrorists....there are Christians in the North, even among the Fulanis there are evangelists, pastors and missionaries of fulani extraction.

I live amongst the Northerners and I can tell you that there are many Islamic religious leaders who have spoken against manipulating the Muslim faithfuls to always support their own during elections ...I have video evidences.
There's no region in Nigeria that suffers the consequences of bad leadership, insecurity and economic mismanagement more than Northern Nigeria

jaxxy:


u should be asking millions of Nigerians suffering not me.