PROPOSED REDUCTION IN PETROL PRICE BY THE FG IS A DECEIT - FAYOSE

Following the announcement made yesterday by the Federal Government to reduce the pump price of petrol to #85 per litre, Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State on Saturday, 26 December said it is a part of the deceptions propagated by All Progressives Congress, APC-led government.

The Governor therefore dared the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed to relocate to Sambisa in Borno state or move around in Yobe state without heavy militaryescort if he was indeed sure that Boko Haram insurgents have been defeated,  he said only then would Nigerians take him serious.

Speaking through an issued statement by his media aide, Lere Olayinka, the Governor said “only God’s intervention can save Nigeria from the present economic and security problems as it is glaring that the man running the affairs of the country at the federal level does not have any answer to the problems,” and that only in a "confused and clueless economy" would government want to spend moren where revenue has dwindled more than 50 percent.

Fayose also predicted that petrol will never sell below #100 per litre in 2016, “Even now that the price is N87 and subsidy is yet to be removed, Nigerians are buying at between N130 and N300 per litre. What will now happen when they remove subsidy and allow market forces to determine the price?” He explained further that, “Even secondary school students of economics know that you cannot deregulate and regulate at the same time.”

He said, “Even the Holy Bible said in James 1:5 that if anyone lacks wisdom, he should ask God and as it is, Nigerians must assist the President in asking for wisdom and understanding to tackle the country’s economic and security problems before Nigeria is further plunged into more woes with the federal government’s decision to borrow N2.2 Trillion, which translates to N6.066 billion per day to finance the 2016 Budget."

He said Lai Mohammed will be taken serious by Nigerians only if the minister relocates to either Sambisa in Borno State or Yobe State and stay there till the end of March, next year without heavy military security.”

The statement also said, “To show their level of confusion, two days after the Minister of Information declared that Boko Haram had been defeated, President Buhari said the government would persuade Boko Haram to abandon their fight. One then wonders how the same Boko Haram insurgents Lai Mohammed said were already defeated will have to be persuaded to abandon their fight.
“Interestingly, the same Boko Haram that Lai Mohammed said had been defeated reported attacked Kimba village in Gur ward of Biu Local Government Area of Borno State yesterday night.
“Therefore, the Information Minister must show Nigerians how peaceful Borno and Yobe States have become after the defeat of Boko Haram by relocating to either Sambisa, Maiduguri or Yobe.”