President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Festus Osifo, and the presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Adewale Adebayo, have
While stressing it might be too early to criticise him, Adebayo said Tinubu should be reminded that the occasion of his inaugural speech was not the best avenue to have announced the suspension of such a macroeconomic policy.He said, “Never mind what the argument like the gentleman in the labour has said, he is taking us back to the past.
“If you look at the majority of voters, they voted r willingly for the political party that said he would remove the subsidy. APC got the highest votes followed by PDP, then Labour Party. I was the only person that wanted the subsidy to stay. “My disagreement with the president is that you are coming into the office and the next thing is that you announced the removal of the subsidy. What people will understand is that the policy Buhari left behind which says that subsidy will go by the end of June, 2023 and people are expecting you to come in and put palliatives and other things between now and the expiring date of that law.
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