By Samuel Ajayi
ABUJA (Sundiata Post) In January 2015, going by dwindling price of crude oil at the international market, Goodluck Jonathan reduced cost of a litre of petrol from N97 to N87.
The first statement from the APC was that it was a “tokenism that it is more of a Greek gift.” To them, “going by crude oil prices, a litre of fuel should not be more than N55. So the PDP-led government has not done anything special.”
I know many Nigerians, especially those who saw Buhari as the coming messiah, who mocked Jonathan that he reduced fuel prices because of election.
This was in those heady days of “FEBUHARI” (I hope we remember). It later became “MARCH FOR BUHARI”.
Today, a litre of fuel is N180 while the price of crude oil is just marginally different from what it was in January 2015 when fuel sold for N87 per litre. Before March 2019, you are likely to be buying fuel for N220 per litre. Call me names but mark my words.
That’s the price a nation pays when it deals with her leaders based more on EMOTIONS than EMPIRICAL REALITIES.
As they say on the streets, we are on a long thing…
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