FUEL HIKE, HEIGHT OF INSENSITIVITY BY BUHARI

Comrade Danjuma Bello Sarki, The President of the Kaduna PDP Youth Patriotic Front and a strong member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says the over 50% hike in the pump price of petrol, PMS by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari is senseless and the height of cruelty against the people of Nigeria.

The President of the Kaduna PDP Youth Patriotic Front and a strong member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Comrade Danjuma Bello Sarki says the over 50% hike in the pump price of petrol, PMS by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari is senseless and the height of cruelty against the people of Nigeria.

Danjuma Sarki, a forthright and outspoken youth leader who has earned his place in the politics of the state and including the top hierarchy of the PDP at the national level, is known for his strong criticisms of the APC led-government.

Comrade Danjuma who is the President of the Kaduna State PDP Patriotic Youth Front, PYF has described as callous, the decision of the Buhari administration that has not added any value to the economic well-being of its people since it assumed office almost a year ago to dish out such obnoxious policy on the same people that voted it into office.

The PYF President has therefore warned that, should the decision to allow for the increment to stand, the economic hardship that will follow on the lives of the average Nigerian, would be disastrous and vicious.

In a statement he issued, Comrade Danjuma Bello Sarki noted that, “there is no justification that despite the decrease in international price of oil, which is today hovering around $45, Nigerians are still made to buy fuel at #145 per litre”.

“This decision only goes to shows that the present government has lost touch with the yearning and aspirations of the masses. We believe that no sensible government would contemplate increase in price of Petroleum product at a time like this when Nigerians are obviously going through excruciating hardship and lack, where prices of household commodity are avoidably, skyrocketing”.

It could be recalled that before assuming office as President and Vice respectively, Muhammadu Buhari and Yemi Osibanjo with their political party; the All Progressive Congress, APC had criticized and rejected vehemently, any deregulation of the Downstream Sector by the Jonathan administration.

“It is absolutely deceptive that Buhari, Osinbajo and the APC who vehemently rejected the deregulation of the downstream sector by the past administration and during the last campaigns promised to reduce the pump price of petrol from N87 to N45 have now decided to insult the sensibility of Nigerian by this increase”.

Speaking on behalf of the Kaduna PDP Youth Patriotic Front, its President stated that; “this decision of the APC administration has further exposed their disconnect with the people and has once again proven their insensitivity to the plight of the common man. It obviously shows that Buhari and his APC co-travellers are not interested in improving the welfare of the downtrodden, but derive joy in inflicting untold hardship on the people”.