Kaduna State Governor Nasir El Rufai has stated that Nigerians are to blame for the country’s lingering fuel scarcity.
El Rufai said on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Wednesday that Nigerians must “face the truth” of ending fuel subsidies in order to end the petrol shortage.
The Kaduna governor stated that the fuel subsidy issue is not partisan, and that fuel scarcity is the result of the country’s unsustainable and broken subsidy regime, which it has chosen to maintain for the past 50 years.
He said:
Subsidies had been with us time from immemorial. The PDP government also had that problem. The problem is not the APC, I think the problem is Nigerians who are not willing to face the truth.
We have queues because of this unsustainable and broken down subsidy regime that we have chosen to maintain for the past 50 years. It has not worked.
It is not an APC problem; it is a Nigerian problem, because today, if President Muhammadu Buhari says ‘remove subsidy’, NLC would be out on the street protesting.
Under Obasanjo administration, we’ve had that three or four times. We need a national conversation to tell ourselves the truth.