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Rescind Planned to Increase Fuel Price, Nigerians Already Facing Serious Economy Hardship – Northern Youths Warns Buhari

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THE Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG), North-Central zone, and the students wing of the North-Central Youth Association, including other civil society groups, have warned and issued 28-day ultimatum to President Muhammadu Buhari, against any attempt to increase the prices of petroleum products said there would be dire consequences, while describing the federal and state governments as failures.

The groups issued the warning on Saturday after a one-day stakeholders meeting which was held in Minna, Niger State capital. 

The group vowed to use all what they have to resist the government should it decide to go ahead with the plan.

The groups in a communique read at the end of the meeting by its North-Central coordinator, Comrade Mohammed Mohammed, averred that increase in petroleum products’ prices would further worsen the sufferings of Nigerians, saying that such an action will “amount to sending a majority of Nigerians to their early graves, especially those in Northern Nigeria who are already on ‘life support machine’ due to the current hardship.” 

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According to the groups, the planned increase in the pump price of petroleum is a clear indication that “Nigeria’s current leadership appears incapable or unwilling to lead the people out of their multiple economic, social and security challenges. 

The current administration of President Muhammadu Buhari and all the 36 state governors of the federation, including the Federal Capital Territory administration, have failed totally in the major areas of providing security and protect lives and properties of the citizens and ensuring a secured economic environment for growth and development of the country,” the groups stated, adding that the reasons given by the government for the planned increase in fuel price “are traceable only to inept and insensitive leadership at the national and state levels.” 

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The groups said it would begin a campaign to sensitise Northern societies and groups to support “a sustained resistance to force the government to immediately rescind the implementation of this unpopular, corrupt and inhuman policy or risk an unprecedented mass action and civil disobedience,” labelling government’s promise of N5,000 palliative to 40 million vulnerable Nigerians to cushion effects of subsidy removal as “unfounded lies, unwarranted, fake, impracticable, ill-intended and unacceptably disgusting.” 

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The groups further maintained that “the plan to hike the fuel price in the face of the ongoing intractable challenges to security of life and property in the country, especially in the North, represents an act of hostility against the people by the leaders who have the responsibility to protect them.”

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