Nigerian comedian, Oluwaseyitan Aletile, popularly known as Seyi Law, has commended President Bola Tinubu for abolishing the fuel subsidy.
News360 Info recalls that President Tinubu, during his inaugural speech upon swearing in as Nigerian president, declared that ‘fuel subsidy is gone’.
Tinubu noted that the government could no longer afford the long-time tradition of paying subsidies on the Petroleum Motor Spirit (PMS), better known as fuel.
This development has impacted the lives of every Nigerian as the cost of commodities, among others, has skyrocketed.
Acknowledging the difficulties being faced by this action, Seyi Law maintained that it will ultimately serve the best interests of Nigerians.
The comedian pointed out that the fuel subsidy should have been eliminated sooner.
He remarked that had it been removed in 2012, during Goodluck Jonathan’s presidency—when the former opposition party, led by Tinubu, protested against it, Nigerians would have already been liberated from this financial burden.
“Fuel subsidy should have been long gone. If it had gone in 2012, we would have gone through the pain process, and by now, we would have been healing.
“In 2012, I was the only celebrity that went on stage to kick against the anti-fuel subsidy movement. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala came out to say that the nation could not afford to pay salaries,” Daily Post quoted the comedian saying in a recent interview.
“We were borrowing to pay salaries,” he quoted Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, saying.
