Atiku’s Subsidy Promise: Nigerians Deserve a Clear Plan and Full Accountability
Atiku Abubakar is right to demand a public account of the savings from petrol subsidy removal. Nigerians are facing severe cost-of-living pressures and deserve to know how funds freed by the reform have been spent. However, a promise to restore subsidy requires more than public anger at current hardship. Nigerians should ask how a new subsidy would be funded, audited and protected from smuggling, inflated claims and other abuses that weakened the previous system. Atiku should also address his own public record as former Vice President and chairman of the National Council on Privatisation. Questions about the outcomes, transparency and value of major privatisation deals are legitimate matters of public accountability, not proof of criminal wrongdoing. Nigeria needs transparent petroleum accounts, targeted relief for vulnerable citizens and investment in transport, jobs, domestic refining and productive sectors. Every presidential contender should show the numbers, explain past decisions and present a credible economic plan beyond promises of cheaper petrol.
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