“Fuel and Electricity Price Hike Extremely Cruel”, PDP Tells Buhari

The People’s Democratic Party PDP has advised President Muhammed Buhari to retrace his step over the new fuel and electricity price hike.

The leading opposition party said the new price hike will further worsen the already harsh living conditions of Nigerians as there is no way they can survive the new fuel and electricity price hike, considering that the economy was already wobbling and life for an average citizen has been tough, TheConscience reports.

In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the Party said, “country men and women cannot survive the obnoxious hike in the cost of fuel and electricity, as currently imposed by the Buhari administration.

According to him, “Nigerians are already in trepidation that the excruciating price increase is a sudden death sentence on many citizens, particularly those living below poverty line, as they cannot survive under a worsened economic situation.

“Moreover, with a N30,000 federal monthly minimum wage, which represents a N1,000 ($2.1) daily wage, there is no way an average Nigerian can survive under the excessive fuel and electricity hike, with attendant increases in transportation and other operational costs.

“We remind President @MBuhari that this hike will worsen the scary situation in the last five years, where compatriots are resorting to suicide, slavery mission abroad as well as selling of their children as options.”

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Challenging and rubbishing the administration’s attempt to justify the hike, Ologbondiyan said, “Moreover, given our natural endowment, it is incontrovertible that Nigeria has always had cheaper fuel than her neighbours, It is however disgraceful that this Buhari administration, given its incompetence, extreme cluelessness as well as obnoxious and poverty which will leave most citizens with nothing for food, medicines, house rents and other basic necessities of life.

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“The PDP therefore rejects the highly irrational argument by the Minister of Information, Mohammed, that fuel price is lower in some West African countries, without presenting the contradictory economic settings in those countries and ours.

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“Our party therefore finds it extremely cruel and insensitive for anybody, particularly, an official of this failed administration, to attempt to antagonize Nigerians by comparing our nation to other countries where their Presidents are working hard in providing gainful employments, running productive economies and functional infrastructure, and where citizens boast of strong purchasing power.