Peter Obi Says Fuel Subsidy Is Organised Crime, Must Be Removed
The candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi, has insisted that fuel subsidy is an organised crime and that he would have removed it if elected as the Nigerian president.
Obi, who said this on Monday while speaking on Arise TV’s ‘The Morning Show’, however, faulted the approach adopted by President Bola Tinubu in removing the subsidy, saying that he would have taken a better thought-out approach before removing it to avert the current acute effects and looming strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC).
The former Anambra State Governor during the programme monitored by SaharaReporters said, “Let me reiterate my position, and I say it, fuel subsidy is organised crime as it was being practised. In my tweets of September 19, 2022, and in my manifesto, it showed clearly the way we would have approached it.
"Fuel Subsidy is an organised crime. I have said this repeatedly that it should be removed. I mentioned it repeatedly during the campaign. I mentioned that what we are consuming is far above what we are supposed to be consuming.
"Governor Isah Yaguda in his interview recently said that a friend of his who was involved in fuel subsidy, gains and everything told him that it is criminals that are even tired of making money through that type of crime, it should be removed. This shows there is a criminality side of it.