The Makinde/Daura Presidential Campaign Organization (MDPCO) has described the N60 discount on the N1,400 per litre pump price of fuel at NNPC filling stations announced by the President Bola Tinubu administration as an offensive, deceitful and provocative attempt to beguile Nigerians.
The organization said it is a slap on the face of suffering citizens that at a time they expected an impactful reduction in the astronomically high pump price of petrol, the Tinubu government came out on national media to announce an infinitesimal and ‘microscopic’ discount of N60.
TiIs was contained in a statement signed by the Director of Strategic Communications, MDPCO, Richard Ihediwa.
The MDPCO queried why an administration that was quick to carry out a geometric increase in the price of petrol by up to 733 per cent is now embarking on an arithmetic decrease with a teeny N60 in a desperate attempt to score cheap political points because elections are around the corner.
“It is indeed appalling that a government that deliberately caused an inexplicable increase in the pump price of petrol is now embarking on an insulting reduction that cannot add value but rather create wide division amongst the people,” the organization said.
It noted that the minuscule reduction will only be at scantily located NNPC-owned retail filling stations and for a period of one month, which clearly shows that the Tinubu administration has come to its wits’ end and become bereft of solutions.
“Moreover, the offer to sell our crude oil to domestic refineries at a dollar rate of $80 per barrel is distasteful and offensive to our status as an oil producing nation,” it added.
The campaign organization said Nigerians cannot be swayed by what it described as an act of deceit and failed media stunt.
“In any case, Nigerians cannot be swayed by this act of deceit and failed media stunt to change their resolve to vote out the dishonest, insensitive and grossly inept Tinubu-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration in January, 2027,” it said.
“What Nigerians desired and deserve is an impactful reduction in fuel price and not this dishonest act to hoodwink citizens ahead of the 2027 general elections.
“This explains why Nigerians are determined to vote in an honest, resourceful and responsive government that will effectively and transparently harness and utilize our natural resources for the benefit of all under Engr Seyi Makinde, the Presidential candidate of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM).”