Nigeria: Atiku's Petrol Subsidy Proposal Fails the Economic Test and Raises More Questions Than Answers
Economists say the plan lacks cost estimates, funding sources and safeguards, while critics warn the old subsidy system favored richer households and smugglers.
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Nigeria: Atiku's Petrol Subsidy Proposal Fails the Economic Test and Raises More Questions Than Answers
Any presidential candidate promising to restore petrol subsidy without publishing its cost, funding source and safeguards is not presenting an economic policy. He is selling an illusion to a distressed electorate.
NIGERIA DAILY: What Would Restoring Fuel Subsidy Mean For...
DOWNLOAD HERE: As reactions continue to trail former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s promise to restore fuel subsidy if elected president in 2027, the debate over the policy is once again gaining attention. For many Nigerians, the idea of cheaper petrol sounds like welcome relief at a time when transportation, food and other living costs remain high. NIGERIA DAILY: “If Campaign Advertising Costs Become Too High, We’ll Find Alternatives” — Opposi…
“Economic Policy Cannot Be Reduced To Election-Season Promises” — APC Chair Yilwatda Rejects Atiku’s Plan To Restore Fuel Subsidy
National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, has criticised former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar’s proposal to reverse the removal of petrol subsidy if elected president in 2027, warning that such a major economic decision cannot be reduced to what he described as an election-season promise. Yilwatda, in a statement issued on Monday in Abuja by his Special Adviser on Media and Information Strategy, Abimbola Tooki, …
Is Atiku’s promise to restore fuel subsidy the lifeline Nigerians have waited for?
The presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, in the 2027 general elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has done what the Tinubu administration refuses to do: listen to the suffering of ordinary Nigerians. Atiku’s vow to restore the fuel subsidy recklessly scrapped by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on May 29, 2023, is the first real … The post Is Atiku’s promise to restore fuel subsidy the lifeline Nigerians have waited for? appea…
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