President Bola Tinubu has ruled out a return to Nigeria’s petrol subsidy regime. He recently had his say via his Independence Day address to citizens, and Nigerians have been reacting.
Warning against calls to reverse his administration’s economic reforms, Tinubu stressed that abandoning the reforms would amount to returning to policies that failed to address Nigeria’s underlying economic problems.
BAT added that the voices calling for a return to subsidy arrangements are regressive to say the least.
His words, “Our reforms did not create the weaknesses in our economy. They confronted them.
Now, as certain influential but regressive voices would have us abandon the treatment and return ourselves to the abuse of addictive subsidies, we must resist their siren song.
Nigeria was like a sick patient who receives the terrible news that he has cancer.
His doctor explains that the treatment will be difficult and painful, but that it offers a strong prospect of recovery.
The patient has a choice. He can begin treatment, endure its discomfort and fight the disease. Or he can ask only for morphine, dull the pain and leave the cancer to spread.
For too long, Nigeria’s leaders chose morphine while praying for a miracle that never came.”
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