Patrick Obahiagbon, a Nigerian politician and lawyer, has spoken out about President Bola Tinubu’s decision to eliminate fuel subsidies.
In an interview with Vanguard on Sunday, June 4, he said, “I am maniacally perplexed that Mr President’s righteous stance on subsidy has generated some verbal animadversion from some censorious analysts.
“What fresh information did the President provide? Mr. President just added a Presidential obiter dictum to a self-fulfilling reality. It just goes to show that we are the source of our own issues in this country. (Because most people knew the subsidies would be abolished, President Tinubu simply did the obvious).
“It verges on hair-splitting and sciamachy for critiques to go to town calumniating Mr President as being culpable for the pandemonium that greeted his statement when he said at the presidential inauguration that the regime on subsidy has come to an end.
“He was only echoing a legal reality that the Buhari government has enthroned. Has there not been regular chaos in this aspect of our lives before Mr President’s statement? There was no basis for the chaos following his speech since this was a situation the nation was well aware of.
“Let us blame our mephistophelian profiteers, philistine carpet baggers and prebendal homo-sapiens. What we need right now is an audacious leader capable of providing himself as a political minesweeper and taking the big decisions.
“So from that point of view, Mr President’s asseveration on the subsidy indaba was supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (What he means is that Tinubu’s decision on subsidy is great but we should blame profiteers for the initial chaos.”