Fuel Subsidy: Oladele Knocks Atiku Over Policy Stance, Labels Proposal Recycled Rhetoric

A prominent chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun State and former member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Kayode Oladele, has strongly criticized former Vice President Atiku Abubakar over his recent critiques regarding the administration's fuel subsidy removal policy.

Oladele dismissed the 2023 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate's alternative subsidy management proposal, characterizing it as nothing more than a superficial attempt to repackage an old, discredited economic policy under a new guise to curry cheap political capital.

Speaking on the ongoing public discourse surrounding economic reforms, the APC stalwart pointed out that all frontline presidential contenders during the 2023 general election campaigned on the unequivocal premise that the petrol subsidy regime had become an unsustainable fiscal hemorrhage on the nation's treasury.

He maintained that attempting to shift positions now constitutes political opportunism, arguing that the bold measures taken by the federal government were long-overdue interventions required to prevent catastrophic sovereign insolvency and redirect vital funds toward infrastructure and human capital development.