Atiku faults Tinubu over rising fuel, fertiliser prices

…Cites CORAN, Trump in support of production subsidy

By Omeiza Ajayi

ABUJA — Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Atiku Abubakar, has faulted President Bola Tinubu’s handling of fuel subsidy removal, citing increases in the prices of petrol, fertiliser and cement as evidence of the rising cost of living under the administration.

Atiku, in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, said fertiliser had risen from about N9,000 to N50,000, petrol from about N199 to N1,400 per litre and cement from roughly N4,000 to N13,500.

He also cited the movement of the naira-dollar exchange rate from about N450 to N1,400, arguing that Nigerians were experiencing the impact of the increases in their daily lives.