BEFORE the 2015 general elections, Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, then the National Publicity Secretary of the main opposition party, All Progressives Congress (APC) was vocal in criticising plans by Goodluck Jonathan-led government to deregulate the downstream operations of the oil and gas sector.

Jonathan wanted to remove the fuel subsidy so that the pump price could be determined by the forces of demand and supply, allowing marketers to fix the price. The opposition, represented by Mohammad, was vociferous in its condemnation of the planned subsidy removal.

However, five years after, the then mouthpiece of the APC, who now speaks for the incumbent government is not only defending the recent removal of subsidy by President Muhammadu Buhari administration, he is also attacking those condemning the action by the government.

The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) on Tuesday, September 8, announced that major and independent marketers are now free to fix the retail price of the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) known as petrol.

Abdulkadir Saidu, Executive Secretary of PPPRA, during a press briefing in Abuja said that government would no longer release guiding price bands for the sale of petrol at filling stations.

He noted that the downstream arm of the oil and gas sector had been fully deregulated with this development. Saidu said the price of petrol would be driven by the forces of demand and supply and the international cost of crude oil.

Saidu, represented by Victor Shidok, the General Manager, Administration, and Human Resources of the PPPRA, said that owing to the difficulties in accessing foreign exchange by oil marketers, the PPMC is currently the sole importer of the commodity and announces the prices at which it sells the commodity to oil marketers.

A week before, PPMC, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, increased pump price from N148 to N151.56k.

The new price was announced in a memo with reference number PPMC/IB/LS/020 issued on Wednesday, September 2 by D.O Abalaka of PPMC.

READ MORE: https://www.icirnigeria.org/flash-back-lai-mohammeds-360-degree-change-from-critic-to-advocate-of-fuel-subsidy-removal/

Hum

they will still remove the subsidy again if they want to increase pump price to 250...since the days of 80 naira we have been hearing this subsidy rubbish

that is Lai 4 us

He knws d right thing bt wld rather support evil as long as it favours his selfish interest

They are all wicked hypocrites.This is the most nauseating thing about the APC.All they have ever done came back to hunt them real good but unfortunately they have silly excuses for them all & Niģerians are not holding them to accountability.

What are you expecting? Even go ask Tinubu too may be you go understand the meaning of hypocrite

Why so much delay ni , don't tell,me they're not seeing the plight of Nigerians.....

When ur mouth is full with morsels, u dare not talk to avoid being choked by the food. its called table manners.

Has anybody expected any truth from lai
He has never disappointed me at all !!

Even his parents looked into his future and named him Lai... It is his destiny