The immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi has revealed that the protest launched against the fuel subsidy removal during the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2012 was mere politics.
Fayemi stated this while delivering his keynote address at a national dialogue organised to celebrate the 60th birthday of the founding National Secretary of Alliance for Democracy (AD), Professor Udenta Udenta, in Abuja, on Tuesday.
Recall that On January 1, 2012, President Goodluck Jonathan announced the removal of fuel subsidy and adjusted the pump price of petrol from sixty-five naira per litre to one hundred and forty-one naira.
After weeks of protest, the pump price was later adjusted to eighty-seven naira. Jonathan, however, faced serious backlash from the adjustment in fuel price, especially from leaders of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), who are now mostly in the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Vanguard reported that, Fayemi while speaking said Nigeria need an alternative politics, noting that his understanding of alternative politics is that Politician who have thirty-five percent of the votes in election, should not take one hundred percent.
He added that in 2012 members of the Action Congress of Nigeria is aware that removing the subsidy is the best decision for Nigeria but played politics with their protest against the president’s decision.
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