The Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar says that if elected, Nigerians won’t have to wait in gas lines for Christmas the next year.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has established a record for the longest gasoline shortage in the nation’s history, according to a statement released on Saturday by Phrank Shaibu, Abubakar’s media adviser.
Abubakar said it is sad that President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to address the situation.
“It is disheartening that a country that claims to spend $40m daily on petrol subsidy cannot still make the product available to its people. This is clear evidence that the monies are going into private pockets ahead of elections at the expense of Nigerians,” he said.
“The APC which is running for a third term through the person of Bola Ahmed Tinubu is now promising renewed hope after dashing the hopes of millions of Nigerians for the last eight years.
“It is exasperating that Tinubu is promising to remove petrol subsidy when his party has retained it for the last seven years and spent billions of dollars subsidizing criminality.
“It is obvious that Tinubu’s statement is an indictment on Buhari.