Ologbondiyan Backs Atiku's Fuel Subsidy Reform Plan
Kola Ologbondiyan, a senior figure in the African Democratic Congress, has thrown his support behind Ologbondiyan Atiku's fuel subsidy reform proposals, arguing that Nigerians are suffering under the current pump price regime and that something has to give. Speaking on Sunrise Daily on Channels Television, Ologbondiyan pushed back firmly on suggestions that ADC presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar wants to revive the old, opaque subsidy system scrapped by President Tinubu at his 2023 inauguration. "Let me start on a very clean note, which is that nobody is returning Nigeria to the old system. Nobody is contemplating that, not the ADC presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. Nobody is," he said. He said his own position on the subsidy removal has been consistent from the start. "I have always told the Tinubu administration to review the subsidy regime. I did declare that the removal of the subsidy would hurt Nigerians and the Tinubu administration more," he s...
