Razaq Bamidele
The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has strongly condemned the sudden increase in the prices of petroleum products, describing it as wicked ad insensitive on the party of the Federal Government.
In a statement signed by its Co-Spokesman, Comrade Mark Adebayo, the CUPP called the increase “an insensitive and wicked infliction of pains on Nigerians who are yet to recover from the debilitating effects of Covid-19 which the present government did next to nothing to assuage the suffering masses and small scale businesses.
This government, according to the statement, “has demonstrated, time and again, that it lacks empathy for the suffering of the citizens under an economy that has been so terribly mismanaged due to its obvious incompetence and humongous corruption”.
The Coalition, therefore, advised the government to immediately revert to either the N123.00 that it was reduced to during the lockdown or, better still, make it N100.00 flat which would cushion the combine negative effects of COVID-19 and the badly-managed economy of the country.
It said such an increase at this time is not only ill-advised but also reprehensible and unpardonable, advising that what the government should do is find solution to the burgeoning economic crises of the country and not aggravate an already desperate situation for the mass of Nigerians.
The CUPP lamented that the immediate fallouts of this ill-timed policy would be increases in the prices of food and transportation accompanied by inevitable and punitive inflation.
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“It is clear that this government has run out of ideas on how to fix this country and it’s better for Nigerians to get ready to vote out this failed government in 2023.
“That is a patriotic assignment to which all Nigerians must be committed so that the country would not be run asunder by incompetence, lack of vision and anti-people policies as being executed by the current APC government,” the Coalition admonished.
