The President said if the subsidy remained, it would bring Nigeria to her knees.
Speaking with the traditional rulers, Tinubu was quoted as saying, “I am grateful that you are paying attention to what I have been doing. You have paid attention to the subsidy removal.
“The elephant that was going to bring Nigeria to its knees is the subsidy. A country that cannot pay salaries and we say we have potential to encourage ourselves. I think we did the right thing.” He assured them that his administration would run an open-door policy that would listen to the yearnings of Nigerians toward transforming the country’s rich potential into reality.
‘‘We may not have it right 100 per cent of the time but we must get it right 90 per cent of the time for this country,” he added.
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