A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Osita Okechukwu, has called on the Presidential Economic Team (PET) to be fair to Nigerians amid hardship affecting citizens.
Okechukwu decried that some members of the PET could not give full details of revenues the country was getting from the removed fuel subsidy.
News360 Info reported on Friday that the Minister of Finance and Coordinating of the Economy, Wale Edun, along with the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Atiku Bagudu, demanded a closed-door session when grilled about revenue from removed fuel subsidy during the National Assembly Joint Committee on Budget and Finance meeting.
In an open letter on Sunday, the former Director General of Voice of Nigeria (VON) accused the economic team of derailing the economic policies of President Bola Tinubu.
“May I humbly appeal via this Open Letter and earnestly urge the Presidential Economic Team to patriotically consider the gruesome economic hardship in the land, so as to stop derailing President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda meant to uplift millions out of poverty.
“Am making this humble appeal because am not the only foundation member of the APC who wants our great party to succeed; albeit many do not want our great to go into 2027 general elections limping in the midst of widespread discontent, despondency and despair.
“Secondly, one sincerely thinks that President Tinubu means well and wants to successfully consolidate the neoliberal capitalist system by taking bold decisions to bolster economic resorgimento in Nigeria via his Renewed Hope Agenda.
“Luckily for us Nigerians, President Tinubu has harvested the fine tenets of classical Non-Alignment-Doctrine; consequent upon his cordial diplomatic relationship with the West and the East.
“Hence Mr President in spite of the economic hardship and gross inequality has mobilised all the necessary international powers to utilise our demographic youth advantage in an aging world to consolidate the CHANGE our great party APC pledged in July 2013,” he said.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain called on the economic team to work towards alleviating the country’s hardships.
