Nollywood veteran, Kenneth Okonkwo, has lamented that regardless of the elimination of fuel subsidy by the president Bola Tinubu’s administration, Nigerians are but to achieve something.
Okonkwo, a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, made this assertion on Tuesday, whereas responding to questions in an interview on ‘Political Paradigm’, a programme on Channels Tv.
When requested what was completely different in President Tinubu’s independence day speech from the earlier the earlier ones, the authorized practitioner mentioned, “Let’s to begin with agree that it’s a truism that not simply the younger ones however no one regarded ahead to president Tinubu’s speech.
“I listened to it as a result of I’m a public affairs analyst. Individuals will query me on it, in any other case, I might not have listened to it. And why would individuals hearken to propaganda?
“In these days, our leaders instructed us the truths, however Tinubu has used two years of his regime as a result of he mentioned it’s his third tackle. And that is to present us propaganda.
“The president mentioned Nigerians are benefitting from the subsidy elimination. That’s a lie. I used to be paying N195 per litre and now paying N1,000 for the the identical factor and also you mentioned I’m benefitting? It is a typical lie. Nigerians have gained nothing from fuel subsidy elimination and authorities’s borrowings.”