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The Northern Elders Council has expressed support for the partial removal of fuel subsidy.

According to the group, the long term benefits of the decision outweigh the short term pains associated with it.

Chairman of the council, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai said this in a telephone interview with our Correspondent, in Abuja, on Thursday.

He explained that he has personally been a strong supporter of withdrawal of fuel subsidy for the last twenty years.

The elder statesman explained that this position was informed by the fact that ordinary Nigerians have not benefitted from the subsidy regime because the actual beneficiaries have been marketers and their collaborators in successive governments.

Yakassai said, “Marketers and smugglers have been the main beneficiaries of the policy.

“Besides, as long as the petroleum products price would be cheaper in Nigeria than in our immediate neibouring countries, nobody can stop smuggling of the products from our country to our neighbours.

“If the government removes the subsidy, the money that would be saved as a result can be put to better use in dealing with more pressing problems bedeviling our nation such as problems of endemic unemployment, dilapidated infrastructure, modernisation of agriculture, addressing the need for robust education and healthcare delivery.”

The former Presidential Laison Officer further explained that above all, Nigeria will save a lot of resources lost to corrupt individuals and corporations who have together conspired to deny Nigerians the better life they deserve.
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Why dem no go support[size=14pt] No be Buhari’s sycophants them be [[/size]

Puppets!

The walking Dead.

Now showing in Cinemas near you

benedictnsi:
Why dem no get support No be Buhari’s sycophants them be

It seems you reach orgasm with the name "buhari"...

for every ten posts of yours you must mention buhari......

They think the Subsidy Money will be diverted to them by their BuBu Presido.

Jirate:
They think the Subsidy Money will be diverted to them by their BuBu Presido.

Am very sure you did not read the article or you rather prefer to allow tribalism take away common sense from you...

am not surprised

Hahahahaha...

THE EVER UNITED NORTHERNERS.

If only my own people could be as united as you are when pitched against other tribes.

You might fights amongst yourselves but you sure know how to unite when facing a common cause/enemy.

Height of hypocrisy

They never supported GEJ because he is not their tribesman. But as soon as a member of their tribe brings the same idea, they support him. This is injustice, so how can we have one Nigeria when our leaders are so tribalistic? useless set of jokers

This is not about tribes it about the level of corruption in the previous government.

doyinisaac:
It seems you reach orgasm with the name "buhari"...

for every ten posts of yours you must mention buhari......

it seems you now buhari's watchdog

Sall:
This is not about tribes it about the level of corruption in the previous government.

abeg make I hear word,so APC are now saints in Mount zion

What do you expect?!

hypocrisy of the highest levels..all ABOKlS including the duIIardinho are senseless ...sorry i owe no one no apology..