Kenneth Okonkwo, spokesperson for the 2027 presidential campaign of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, has dismissed criticism of Atiku’s plan to restore petrol subsidy if elected. He recently had his say while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, and Nigerians have been reacting.
Stressing that the proposal is aimed at reducing fuel prices and has nothing to do with the subsidy regime of the past, Okonkwo said that BAT simply misunderstood the policy proposed by Atiku.
Kenneth added that making crude available to domestic refineries at a fair price would lower production costs and ultimately make petrol more affordable to consumers.
His words, “The whole idea of the Atiku plan is affordability of fuel to the ordinary Nigerian.
It is ignorance of Tinubu to say that Atiku wants to go back to the subsidy of the old.
He said, ‘I will supply the needed crude to our local refineries at a price that will be fair enough for them to use to produce the fuel at a reduced and affordable price to Nigerians.’
This was the way the subsidy of the old operated. They were importing 100 per cent of the fuel. We didn’t have any refinery.
Atiku is not going back to that and cannot even go back to that.”
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