The National Chairman of Tinubu Support Network and Director-General of Amalgamated All Progressives Congress (APC) Support Groups, Engr. Kailani Muhammad, at the weekend applauded President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his prompt announcement of subsidy removal.
Kailani, a former staff of defunct Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), argued if Tinubu had not announced the removal of the subsidy at the time he did, the oil cabals benefitting from subsidy would have frustrated the effort as they frustrated the past administrations.
The President’s ally who addressed briefing in Kaduna to rally support for former Governor AbdulAziz Yari as the 10th Senate President, advised President Tinubu not to appoint any former Governor who stood against local government autonomy into his cabinet if he wants to succeed.
According to him: “All those former Governors roving around him (President Tinubu) should be discarded. These are people who worked against local government autonomy.
“He should also discard all those Senators and Ministers that did not perform, and bring technocrats, engineers, seasoned administrators who don’t know how to steal to deliver this country in four years.
“Those lobbyists are not good people and we don’t want them on the stage again. We have been circulating this crop of people every time. Let the President bring new people who have not stolen”, he advised.
On the subsidy, Kailani said: “This is the right decision because the immediate past administration shifted it. We have been postponing the evil day. A time has come for this country to measure up with the comity of Nations.
“Nigeria as a member of OPEC should enjoy gains that accrued from sales of oil to develop infrastructure, health, education, agriculture, etc.
“I think we are good to go. Subsidy removal will increase competitiveness and prices will fall back. I believed he did it in a good fate. I learned palliative will come in from the money that will be accrued from the subsidy.
“If he did not do it now, he may not be able to do it again because those crooks up there that are gaining from subsidy will frustrate him.
“So by the time he gives tolerance and allows time to pass, it will now be a matter of debate.
“They are talking about trillions. How much of this is coming to you and me? It is going to the people at the top. We are satisfied that the decision he took is right”, he argued.
