The All Progressives Congress has called on the Peoples Democratic Party to wake up to a new Nigeria where the government works for the citizens and not for a few interests.
Yekini Nabena, the party’s Deputy National Publicity Secretary, said this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.
The statement was in response to PDP’s criticism of the recent increase in petroleum pump price from N143 to N151 by the Federal Government and the hike in electricity tariff.
The PDP in an earlier statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, rejected the new fuel price and hike in electricity tariff.
“The PDP vehemently rejects the fresh increase in the price of fuel to N151 per liter and electricity tariff to N66 per kwh under the APC and its government,” Ologbondiyan had said.
He demanded for a reversal of the prices to avert what he called a national crisis.
According to him, the increase will result in upsurge in costs of goods and services and worsen the biting hardship being faced by Nigerians.
The APC however said the decision to increase the fuel pump price and the hike in electricity tariff was in the best interest of all.
It said: “The attention of the APC has been drawn to a shameless statement by PDP on the current petrol price and electricity tariff in the country.”
Nabena recalled that four successive PDP governments had foisted on the country a corruption-tainted fuel subsidy regime.
He called on the PDP to surprise itself and Nigerians by cajoling its cronies who ran the subsidy rackets, adding that many of them were in hiding abroad, as reported by eagleonline.
The APC Deputy National Publicity Secretary stressed that the PDP should cajole such persons to return “our stolen commonwealth in their possession”.
He said under the President Muhammadu Buhari Administration, the tortuous fuel queues as a result of biting scarcities were gone.
According to Nabena, the reviewed petroleum products pricing template by the APC-led administration has resulted in a more transparent, efficient and realistic pricing system for petroleum products.
He said it had also resulted in constant availability of fuel nationwide.
He said: “The pricing template now reflects competitive and market driven components which is supported by the citizenry.
