By Luminous Jannamike
ABUJA — The Allied People’s Movement (APM) on Thursday challenged the President Bola Tinubu administration to publicly account for the trillions of naira realised from the removal of fuel subsidy, saying the policy should be judged by its impact on Nigerians’ lives rather than by official pronouncements.
According to the party, more than three years after the subsidy was removed, many Nigerians are yet to see the promised benefits. Instead, it said, households are grappling with soaring living costs, deepening poverty and failing public services despite repeated assurances that the savings, which it put at more than N20 trillion, would be invested in programmes to improve citizens’ welfare.
The demand was contained in a statement by the APM’s National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Abubakar Yusuf, who accused the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government of failing to provide a transparent account of the proceeds generated from the removal of fuel subsidy since May 2023.
The APM called on the Federal Government to publish a comprehensive and independently verifiable assessment of the subsidy removal policy, detailing the total amount realised since May 2023, the projects funded with the money, their locations, the beneficiaries and the measurable outcomes achieved.
