The Special Assistant on Public Communications to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Mr. Phrank Shaibu, has described President Bola Tinubu’s plan to hand out N8,000 to 12 million households for six months as palliative for fuel subsidy removal, as a brazen attempt to divert public funds.
Shaibu said in a statement on Thursday that Tinubu’s plan to spend $800m on palliatives under an opaque arrangement was reminiscent of former President Muhammadu Buhari’s conditional cash transfer and COVID-19 intervention initiatives, which saw politicians keeping food items and provisions in their homes while the poor went hungry.
He said Buhari’s interventionist programmes only ended up making Nigerians poorer as shown in reports released by the National Bureau of Statistic (NBS).
Leadership reports that Shaibu argued that Tinubu lacked a clear economic policy apart from taxing Nigerians.
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