Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar.
To entertain Atiku’s hollow promise is to invite national economic suicide. The old import subsidy regime was not merely a pricing mechanism; it was a black hole of rent-seeking, round-tripping, and monumental corruption that starved health, education, and infrastructure of vital capital… Restoring it would instantly sabotage the nascent renaissance of local refining, crush private sector confidence, and plunge the country back into chronic foreign exchange haemorrhage.
In the architecture of modern political opportunism, few spectacles rival the breathtaking hypocrisy of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s recent policy pivot.
To watch a self-styled statesman — who less than four years ago cast himself as an uncompromising apostle of market-driven reform — scramble to promise the reintroduction of petrol subsidies is nothing short of political apostasy.
This isn’t merely a tactical policy disagreement; it is a sordid, stingy manipulation of the public psyche, designed to hoodwink unsuspecting citizens through an unpardonable exploitation of temporary economic pain.
