Fuel Price: I Have No Intention Of Inflicting Hardship On Nigerians, Says Buhari.
President Muhammadu Buhari says he has no intention of inflicting additional hardship on Nigerians.
He declared that there are no plans to increase fuel price and also restated his promise of ridding the nation of corruption and the oil and gas sector of corruption. The President said this when he met with newly elected officers of the Trade Union Congress in his office, in Abuja. The TUC delegation was led by the National President, Quadri Olaleye.President Buhari disclosed this when he responded to a request by the group not to increase the price of fuel and promised to sustain the momentum in his second tenure and lift millions of Nigerians out of poverty.
He reminded that the key agenda of the inaugural Federal executive council meeting focused on the medium-term expenditure framework which includes the minimum wage as he re-echoed a commitment to implement the new national minimum wage. Leader of the delegation, Quadri Olaleye of the Food, beverage and tobacco senior staff association who recently emerged as the new National President of the TUC, replacing Bobboi Kaigama led the14-member National administrative council of the union to the President.See more photos from the meeting below:
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