Mr Ibrahim Abdullahi Osanga
Following the announcement of a new price regime N855.00 of the pump price of Petrol, an Elder statesman, in Nasarawa State, Ibrahim Abdullahi Osanga has sharply criticised the announcement.
He said the decision to announce the new price regime shows insensitive the government is to the plight Nigerians are going through even at the old price.
Osanga said though it is said man would die to get to paradise, it is not said he must get to paradise through hell and so Nigerians must not go through hell to reach the promised economic prosperrity.
Speaking in an interview with Krestnews in Lafia, Osanga said such is least expected from a government which promised renewed hope to the people.
“I have not seen the hope in the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Tinubu”.
He said President Tinubu is going the wrong way and stressed the need to allow Nigerians breathe.
Osanga said President Tinubu should tread softly, saying the action if not carefully managed it is capable of causing great socio-political upheavals with dire consequences for the government and democracy.
“I am afraid for the President with these draconian economic policies he is churning out. It may not serve his best interest either now or in the long run.
He angrily said “help us tell the president to listen to his employers who are the Nigerian people who employed him with their votes.”
He said what is. in the lips of his employers is. economic policy that has human face and not this pressing economic policy that suffocates the people.
He said the president goofed seriously by hastily removed the petrol subsidy, adding that it should have been implemented gradually, step by step, and putting in place necessary measures to cushion the effect at each stage.
When asked should that be a reason to be worried for 2027, Osanga retorted “Only those God destined will live to see 2027, given the current harsh economic reality which is worsening by the day.”
He said the future looks quite grim and very bleak and urge for a reversal, stressing that the new price regime has made nonsense the yet to be implemented new minimum wage of N70,000.00 recently won by the NLC.
On the current resurgence of insecurity in parts of Nasarawa state, Osanga called on the state government to work closely with security agencies and critical stakeholders to end the menace.
He said Nigerians deserve better life from those they have employed to govern them in the political space.
He called on the federal government to reverse or halt the implementation of the new pump price or consider other measures that are friendly to the people that can cushion the current economic pains.