The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Legislative Budget and Research, Opeyemi Bamidele, has said the absence of a provision for fuel subsidy in the 2015 Appropriation Act is a booby trap for the incoming administration of the President-elect, Maj. Gen.Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).

Bamidele, in a statement on Thursday, said Buhari and the All Progressives Congress should understand the full implications of this and take immediate steps to let Nigerians know where they stand on the matter.

“The truth and reality of the situation is that the outgoing PDP administration has, through the 2015 budget, removed oil subsidy and it must be made to accept responsibility for it rather than for the incoming APC administration to bask in the euphoria of having won an election without realising the booby trap into which they and the Nigerian people are walking into,” he said.

The lawmaker, who contested the governorship seat in Ekiti State on the platform of the Labour Party, said apart from the reduced amount of N21bn provided in the Act for the Subsidy Reinvestment Programme, no other provision was made in the budget for subsidised welfare services.

Bamidele warned that the absence of the provision for continued fuel subsidy portends grave implications for the Buhari administration.

The statement read, “To me, this is definitely a booby trap for the incoming administration. Those who were suggesting within the APC that its incoming administration might withdraw fuel subsidy must be educated that they would be sending Nigerians a wrong signal capable of creating the impression that the APC either deceived Nigerians to get their votes or had reneged on its electoral promise as a progressive party.

“This is a serious development and a defining moment that calls for the attention of all well-meaning Nigerians at home and abroad. This is the first time in the last 16 years of our civilian rule that a new political party will be taking over to form a government and if care is not taken, this matter is capable of making the incoming government morally dead on arrival.

“For the record and for posterity purposes, I am opposed to this sudden removal of fuel subsidy and I implore Nigerian patriots to be aware.”

Those who were suggesting within the APC
that its incoming administration might
withdraw fuel subsidy must be educated that
they would be sending Nigerians a wrong
signal capable of creating the impression
that the APC either deceived Nigerians to get
their votes or had reneged on its electoral
promise as a progressive party.

appini:
Few months from now Nigerians will know that GEJ was not a clueless president.

MzJackBaueress:
This is my uttmost concern. APC and their leaders should be very cautious.

Withdrawin fuel subsidy is not the right thing to do now. All structures must be put in place before taking the decision.

babs01:

shut up! He is d clueless president ever.

babs01:

shut up! He is d clueless president ever.

ShowYourCertificate:
But I thought you guys said fuel price will be N40 per litre, hope you won't renege on your promise

#BabaOneChance

vedd:
It's part of the official plot of the saTANic PDPians to sabotage the incoming government and to make the country ungovernable.
So this is how they intend to "bounce back" in 2019. They have failed!

MzJackBaueress:
shut up please!

It was Tam David West's opinion that per litre of fuel can be sold for 40naira and not the opinion of APC.

Use your brain when necessary. It is not a dummy.

MzJackBaueress:
shut up please!

It was Tam David West's opinion that per litre of fuel can be sold for 40naira and not the opinion of APC.

Use your brain when necessary. It is not a dummy.

arbitter:


And even at that he didnt 'promise' to make it 40 (in case he becomes minster and these scums try to pull that shlt against him)

appini:


Can't you make your point without been abusive??

ShowYourCertificate:
Isn't Tam David West a major APC loyalist and is he not going to be part of APC's government? Or are you guys denying him too? SMH

MzJackBaueress:
How is Tam David West a major APC loyalist? He is a core-Buharist and there no where he told Nigerians he is an APC loyalist or member.

Are you this daft? Don't quote me again without your brain intact.