Nigeria
Voters Assembly has warned that the plan by President Goodluck Jonathan
to increase prices of petroleum products may precipitate a revolution
against the leadership.
The president had indicated at the economic summit in Lagos last week that prices of petroleum products might soon increase.
Voters Assembly, in a statement on
Monday by its National President and Convener, Moshood Erubami, said,
“Nigeria will rise peacefully to shoot down any move to increase their
misery and poverty through another regime of deceptive petrol subsidy
removal, in a sense that will make the January 2012 anti-subsidy removal
protests a child’s play.
“The recent exposure of the real cabals,
who have been living on subsidy as parasites and the quantum of petrol
naira that have been personalised and pocketed has made it quite evident
that past regime of Nigerian oil subsidy removal was antithetic to the
development of Nigerians.
“The current move to withdraw another subsidy is condemnable.
“President Goodluck Jonathan should
resist, for once, the current push by his colleagues and agents of
international finance bodies, who are known parasites on government, to
hearken to the cries of the citizens to deliver service that can
transform their lives.”
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