Fuel Subsidy Removal: Gov Sule defends Tinubu’s Palliatives amidst many criticism

Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa state has described the planned palliatives of President Bola Tinubu’s administration to cushion the impact of the fuel subsidy removal as a courageous initiative and not a summersault policy.

Sule stated this while speaking on Friday on national TV.  He said, “No matter what you do there are going to be critics. In our own society, there are people who just specialize in criticism, especially in this era of social media. I think it (Palliative) was a courageous effort. It’s something that we have been clamoring for.

“From 2002, we have been talking about fuel subsidy removal, no president has had the courage to do that. This President (Bola Tinubu) has said they will be courageous enough to go ahead and remove that (the fuel subsidy).

“Let’s look at it in the other way, if he had said he is going to wait and not remove it, probably we will spend another four years without doing anything and people will still criticize him so, the idea of criticism should not prevent anybody from doing the right thing.”