The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yoruba land, Gani Adams, has faulted the hike in the prices of Premium Motor Spirit, known as petrol.
According to Adams, the fuel price hike is making life difficult for Nigerians, noting that the situation is biting hard.
Adams, who asked the President, Bola Tinubu, to swiftly address the attendant consequences of the subsidy removal, said that Nigerians can no longer bear the hardship they are experiencing.
Adams, in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Aderemi, said such skyrocketing increase in fuel price has never happened in Nigeria’s history.
According to him, there is no country in the world like Nigeria (a major producer of oil) where the citizens are groaning in pain over an insensitive increase in the prices of fuel.
“We know how much we buy fuel before now. Nigeria is yet to survive the subsidy removal that led to the sudden increase in the price of fuel from N187 to N500 per litre before it was jerked up now to N617 per litre within two months. It is painful. No sensitive government would be happy when the citizens are suffering.
“It is imperative for me to speak up, especially, with what we are experiencing now in the country. It is unfortunate. This is not what we expect from a president that is coming from the South West region of the country.
As a product of this democratic struggle, a political activist and the father of the nation, President Bola Tinubu must know that the citizens are his children. Therefore, a father must work on the best way to solve the problem of the children.
“With the present situation in the country, three state governors have declared a three-day week for civil servants in their respective states. The national leadership of the College of Education Academic Staff Union had directed its members nationwide to attend their respective workplaces only two days a week.
