I just heard on Radio continental that the senate president told GEJ to revert fuel price within 24 hours.

How true is this?

Mark would never say such a thing. Listen to that radio very well

David Mark is Gej's boy


Mark will never say such

By Our Reporters
ABUJA—The Senate, yesterday, joined the House of Representatives in asking President Goodluck Jonathan to revert fuel pump price to N65 per litre. In a closed door session, the senators urged the Senate President, Senator David Mark to convey the message of the upper chamber to President Jonathan within 24 hours.

This came as the nationwide protest called by the organised labour against the removal of subsidy on petrol which commenced on Monday was hijacked on its second day by hoodlums in Ogun, Kaduna, Oyo and Edo states even as the Nigeria Labour Congress vowed that the protests will continue indefinitely until the Federal Government reverts the pump price of petrol to N65.

The Federal Government also yesterday declared that it was still ready for dialogue with organised labour, saying that “the option of dialogue is still open”, as it cautioned the security agencies against the use of force against protesters.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/revert-to-n65-senate-tells-jonathan/

Guess I heard well then

I heard same too. Hope it works

Senate asked David Mark to convey the message within 24 hours, not that the President should revert within 24 hours.

GEJ has been hung out to dry by the entire legislative arm of Governance. Those who are politically informed will know the meaning of what we are seeing. The Legislators are , without doubt, the direct representatives of the people in the system of Governance we practice. Disregard them and you disregard the people. It really is as simple as that. GEJ fans should shut up for once and accept that the majority have delivered their verdict . Fuel subsidy removal will be reversed or GEJ will burn and crash with this as focus moves towards how he is reluctant to remove the subsidy him and a few enjoy while insisting fuel subsidy , benefitting 160 million Nigerians, must go. Our Senators and reps may only be concerned with self-preservation but GEJ must open his eyes to note that this is a battle, in the pro-people twitter and facebook age, he cannot win.

GEJ, along with the likes of Sanusi, Allison-Madueke, Labaran Maku and Okonjo-Iweala, will be the fall guy if events spiral towards an ugly end. I can't still believe the incredible naivete of these folks and their callous insistence to put the burden of sacrifice at the door of 160 million Nigerians "living in hell" (Yar Adua) while they fail to admonish the system of hideous profligacy they are a part of.

I am especially disappointed with Sanusi. I expected him to consistently remain pro-people. Careers can be ruined with a single mistake and I think Nigeria , even in only a few years, has moved on from the Nation that can still accomodate David Mark at such a high level despite his consistent anti-people and pro-establishment mentality. We are nowhere near where we need to be but political sophistication is improving. The champions of fuel subsidy removal will all fall on their sword. They knows this and that is why Okonjo Iweala now blames Governors while the Governors in turn blame Sanusi because they are beginning to realise that Nigerians are now waking up , thanks to worldwide events, to their own powers . All those who betray ordinary Nigerians, to side with a profligate, corrupt and evil establishment, should pay from now henceforth for the stance they take.

http://www.osundefender.org/?p=25025

Okonjo-Iweala blames governors for fuel subsidy removal

The minister says the governors are the real masquerades behind the cut in petrol subsidy.

Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has denied masterminding the policy to remove subsidy on fuel, a policy that has sparked nationwide outrage and has grounded Nigeria’s economy since the beginning of the year.

Mrs Okonjo-Iweala is widely regarded in Nigeria as “The Face of Subsidy” and agent of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

But in a BBC interview on Monday, she passed the bulk to governors whom she said began pushing for subsidy removal six months before she joined the Goodluck Jonathan administration.

“The World Bank and IMF have nothing to do with this, absolutely nothing!” she said. “This is an internal government decision and President Jonathan has made it very clear. Remember, six months before I came, the governors have all pushed for subsidy removal.”

Mrs Okonjo-Iweala’s claim further confirms our earlier report that the state governors are the lead advocates for the removal of fuel subsidy.

A Premium Times Investigation, published on January 9, had revealed that the governors’ real motivation for backing the policy is to enable them have control over more money, a situation that would empower them to dispense more political patronage, and in the process solidify their political bases.

A top cabinet source had told Premium Times that the states’ chief executives officers saw in the fuel subsidy cut an opportunity to rake more money since the Federal Government would no longer need to make deduction from their share of the Excess Crude proceeds to fund the subsidy scheme.

In fact, the governors traded the subsidy removal policy with the government’s establishment of the Sovereign Wealth Fund which was established to mop up the excess crude funds which the governors shared with the federal government, monthly.

“Subsidy removal has two decades of history, almost every government from Babangida to Obasanjo have tried (to remove subsidy), so it is not Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,” Mrs Iweala said.

She added that both the speculations that she resigned and this – being “Face of Subsidy Removal” -  is orchestrated by some groups who she said initially didn’t want her to join the Jonathan administration.

“These same people are now seizing the opportunity to say I am the face of subsidy,” she said. “It is absolutely wrong.”

Ashishana Okauru, the director general of the Governors Forum admitted that the issue of fuel subsidy removal “has been on the table” at the governors’ forum.

“In terms of sequence, I don’t know who did what first,” he said.

He added that although analysts and “university professors” could create a link between the decision to remove subsidy on fuel and the governors support for the Sovereign Wealth Fund, both issues were treated “independently” by the governors.

The governors have in turn blame the Central Bank Governor, Lamido Sanusi, for inspiring their decision.

Babangida Aliyu, the governor of Niger State, was on Monday quoted for claiming “an alarm raised by the CBN governor” led them to demand for the removal of fuel subsidy.

CULLED FROM PREMIUM TIMES.