Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, on Thursday accused the Peoples
Democratic Party-led Federal Government of duping Nigerians by
selling kerosene N150 per litre instead of N50.
Oshiomhole, who said this while receiving defectors from the PDP to
the All Progressives Congress in Benin, the Edo State capital, also
said that Nigerians had been suffering since the PDP assumed
power 16 years ago.
This, he said, was because of the PDP’s dedication “to preserve the
privileges of the few.”
Oshiomhole said the Federal Government had been doing this by not
allowing the masses to enjoy the benefits of the natural resources
bestowed on the country by God through shady subsidy deals on
petroleum products.
The governor said, “The man who has a shop must close by 6 pm.
If he operates beyond 6pm, he must put on a generator, and buy
petrol or diesel. For 16 years, the PDP can’t give us light. But if
they leave us in peace even in the dark, it will be bad enough but for
them, that is not bad enough.”
“From Otuoke to Benin City, to Lagos, to Ekpoma, to Iyahmo, to
Sokoto, kerosene is now between N150 and N160 per litre. For every
N150 you spend in buying a litre of kerosene, the PDP steals N100
because in the books of the NNPC, they have it on records that
kerosene is N50 per litre.”
Oshiomhole also commended the quality of the defectors, who he
described as knowledgeable.
He said, “Today is not just the fact of the huge number in this hall
but it is also about the quality of the brains that have now join us;
and in a world that is knowledge-driven, it is only the party that can
parade the best brains that can drive the sustainable change that
Nigeria is currently battling with in order to bail our country from its
present political quagmire.”
The governor also likened the ruling party to “an impotent man.”
-punchng.com
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