Oyo APC Knocks Makinde over Condemnation of Fuel Subsidy Removal by Tinubu

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, yesterday, took a swipe at Governor Seyi Makinde over his recent condemnation of the decision of President Bola Tinubu, to stop payment of fuel subsidy as contained in the president’s inaugural speech on May 29, 2023.

It would be recalled that the governor while speaking during an Inter-faith prayer session held at the Agodi Government Secretariat, Tuesday, was alleged to have blamed the worsening economic situation in the country on the Tinubu administration.

He specifically stated that the removal of fuel subsidy in May last year was done hastily and at a wrong time "thereby inflicting hardship on the citizenry."

But the APC in a statement on Thursday by its Publicity Secretary, Olawale Sadare, urged the governor to shun grandstanding and learn to take responsibility for his personal failure in improving the economy of the state after collecting billions of naira in federal allocations, internally generated revenue, loans, grants, among others in the last 55 months without anything to show for it.

He said the party waited expecting the governor or his aides to debunk or make clarification on the statement credited to him in the media but this never happened, stating that it is obvious that a governor in his second term in office was actually out to put the blame of dwindling economy on a seven month-old government at the centre even when the whole world knows he is part of the problem.

The statement read: "As much as we would not delve into the culpability of Gov. Makinde in the mismanagement of the nation's petroleum resources, it is important we ask him to withdraw his criticism of President Bola Tinubu on the courageous and heroic decision to stop fuel subsidy payment by the federal government since it has been established that the policy was not only fraudulent but also counterproductive and economically suicidal.