Petrol being dispensed into a car
By Akeem Atoyebi
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned what it said was a punitive in the pump price of fuel to over N1,000 per liter in various parts of the country, saying it was a brutal assault on the sensibility and wellbeing of Nigerians by the “insensitive and arrogant All Progressives Congress (APC) administration.”
This was contained in a statement issued on Wednesday by the National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba adding that “the thoughtless increase in fuel price especially at this time, is a huge recipe for crisis as Nigerians cannot bear its worsening effect on the suffocating economic hardship which they currently face under the Tinubu-led APC administration.
The party noted , “The secretive and corrupt administration of the petroleum sector and persistent increase in fuel price under the Tinubu-administration without due regard to the wellbeing of the people is akin to pushing Nigerians to the wall and daring them to do their worse
“The APC administration has consistently shown itself to be anti-people, unconcerned and deaf to the agonies of millions of Nigerians who can no longer afford their daily meals, medications and basic support for families due to the catastrophic high cost of living occasioned by the insensitive and reckless policies of the Tinubu administration.
“Today, under the Tinubu-led APC administration over 150 million Nigerians have sunk below poverty line, businesses are collapsing daily as the Naira now exchange for over N1,600 to a Dollar with over 34% inflation rate and over 40% unemployment rate which are expected to rise further with the latest draconian increase in the price of fuel.“
