Buhari, the former President of Nigeria, made a statement saying he made a sacrifice, in order for Tinubu and the APC to win the 2023 Election.
President Muhammadu Buhari broke his silence on the ‘challenge’ of removing petrol subsidy which he left for his successor, Bola Tinubu, saying that if the policy had been executed, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Tinubu would have lost the 2023 general election.
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Speaking through his former spokesman, Garba Shehu, in a statement, the ex-president praised the current administration’s efforts to remove the petrol subsidy and strive to unify the Naira exchange rate.
According to Shehu, the statement was made in response to persistent questions from some critics who questioned why it took Tinubu only weeks to eliminate the petrol subsidy while Buhari did not.
According to him, if the Petroleum Industry Act, which included the withdrawal of petrol subsidies, had been implemented sooner, the ruling party would have lost the 2023 election.
Why did it take the new Tinubu/Shettima presidency weeks to remove the petrol subsidy when Buhari didn’t do so for years fails to ask the right question, Shehu wrote in a statement titled “Buhari didn’t fail to remove subsidy”.
It should serve as a reminder, that many of those subsidies were all in place when President Buhari was elected in 2015, and all of those in place were gone by May 2023, including the annual fertilizer subsidy that weighed 60-100 billion Naira.
We are aware that there is a ‘New Sheriff in Town’ with a Tinubu/Shettima presidency currently in place.
It couldn’t have happened at a worse time in the country, and no responsible leader would have added fuel to the fire.
In the opinion of many, including those in security circles, only a new administration with a warehouse full of goodwill can attempt this, and here comes the wit and grit of the Tinubu administration.
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The Buhari administration could not have gone all the way in its final days because the APC needed to win an election. That would have been the case for any political party running for re-election with a new leader at the helm.
Poll after poll showed that if the decision envisioned by the new Petroleum Industry Act had been made, the party would have been thrown out of office.
