ACN decries growing sectionalisation of the fuel subsidy issue

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said that, the ongoing fuel subsidy issue is increasingly being turned to a sectional matter, therefore, raising concern about the agenda being pursued by President Goodluck Jonathan and his clueless Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with the subsidy removal.In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday, by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said going by the myriad of newspaper “advertisements placed in recent times by several Ijaw and South-South groups (which we hope do not represent the general opinion in the region), and the inflammatory rhetoric spewing out of the mouth of respected leaders in the region, there might be a hidden agenda in some quarters to push the country to the brink, or even bring the house crashing down on all, as we have warned earlier.”

It said the increasing attack on other geopolitical zones and ethnic groups as well as individual politicians by these apparently-sponsored adverts, simply because Nigerians have said to what they considered an insensitive, oppressive and senseless fuel subsidy removal, showed what could happen when a leader, through sheer ineptness and unfathomable headiness, failed to consider the socio-political impact of what he perceived merely as an economic policy.”

ACN said it was nothing short of a monumental insult for any person or group to infer that the spontaneous and unprecedented nationwide mass action that had greeted the removal of fuel subsidy was being sponsored by the so-called failed politicians, or for any person or group to make such an irresponsible statement that the bulk of the fuel subsidy was consumed in Lagos, even when it was clear that Lagos was a melting pot that was home to people of all ethnic groups.

The party said one of the groups even said it would not mind if the fuel subsidy removal ended up making President Jonathan the last President of a united Nigeria!

''Imagine, for a moment, that this inflammatory and inciting statement had been made by a group other than the one from the South-South! Those behind such group would by now have been threatened with treason charges, that is if they have not yet been arrested. Yet, this is the kind of rhetoric that these South-South groups have been ditching out since the fuel protests started, and the presidency has not deemed it necessary to distance itself from such dead-enders or to repudiate them.”






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