CUPP Slams Tinubu Govt, Says Fuel Subsidy Removal Looking Like A Scam

The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has condemned President Bola Tinubu’s administration over the recent hike in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol.

According to news sources, the price of petrol increased on Tuesday from N540 to N617 per litre following an announcement by the federal government through the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited.

In a subsequent statement, NNPCL Group Chief Executive Officer Mele Kyari blamed the recent increase in petrol pump prices on market forces.

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This answer came shortly after Kyari met with Vice President Kashim Shettima at the Aso Villa.

However, in response to the hardship caused by the recent event, CUPP stated that President Tinubu’s administration’s elimination of fuel subsidies now appears to the population to be a hoax.

CUPP has blasted the ‘crazy and never-ending fuel price hikes,’ which it claims are driving inflation to the roof and making life increasingly unpleasant for Nigerians in general.

CUPP expressed concern about the unexpected increase in a press release issued by the group’s national co-spokesperson, Mark Adebayo, on Wednesday, less than a month after the fuel price was increased by more than 300% on May 29th of this year.

The press release reads: “It has come to the attention of the CUPP the sudden and surreptitious increase yet again in the pump prices of petrol by NNPCL which has immediately started having negative domino effects on all other commodities and services in the country and further drowning most Nigerians into excruciating poverty and unprecedented economic woes.

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“This subsidy removal scheme is increasingly looking like a scam to cage Nigerians inside a preprogrammed regime of socioeconomic slavery dictated by leadership insensitivity. This is not about opposition Parties. The opposition actually felt that the president had something better to offer Nigerians after the subsidy removal but what we are witnessing now is a double negative impact on Nigerians in every way imaginable.

“The way NNPCL is behaving now suggests that there is a hidden agenda of crazy and unending fuel price hikes that will be driving inflation to the rooftops and making life increasingly unbearable for Nigerians generally.

“No purposeful government would recklessly abandon its citizens to the unpredictable and inhumane market forces that are essentially atrocious and callous in nature without a robust intervention to protect the citizens. Such a policy is not only antisocial but also outrageously iniquitous. Nigerians have shown enough understanding of the subsidy removal; this administration should not push them to the wall and thereby instigate unmanageable mass crises that could further jeopardize the life of the common man.

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“President Bola Ahmed Tinubu must immediately show himself as a compassionate leader by ensuring that the NNPCL is not hijacked by the same forces that stole the fuel subsidy monies leading to its removal and finding a backdoor to continue claiming the subsidy by other means and making Nigerians bear the brunt of their economic terrorism. We demand the immediate removal of the NNPCL GMD, Mele Kyari, to allow for a breath of fresh air in the organization and for his tenure to be forensically investigated and all discovered infractions to be comprehensively prosecuted before the NNPCL is turned into the terrorist arm of the economic cabal.”

CUPP asked the federal government to act immediately to reverse the recent fuel price increases and to halt any future attempts to secretly raise pump prices with the foreseeable result of worsening Nigerians’ misery.

“When will Nigerians be free from the wickedness of their governments?”, CUPP asked.

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