Olusola Fabiyi, AbujaThe Peoples Democratic Party on Friday told the Federal Government to perish the thoughts of hiking the price of fuel from the “already exorbitant” N145 per litre, saying such would not only be “criminal, but inhuman and completely unacceptable.”The party said investigations have shown that the Federal Government has been lying to Nigerians on oil-related issues while using the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to bandy figures with intentions to arrive at government’’s predetermined agenda to increase the price of fuel. He said, “Any increase in fuel pump price would be an indirect tax on Nigerians to fund APC interests and, considering the pains Nigerians have suffered under this … government, this intended hike will be callous. “It is now clear to all that this APC-controlled government will never act in the interest of Nigerians. All the actions and policies of APC,in their close to three years in office, have been targeted against Nigerians and there are no signals that they will change. “We, therefore, urge Nigerians to reject this plot to raise the prices of petroleum products even as they gear towards using the next election to end the misrule of the APC.”(Visited 760 times, 6 visits today)

Source: Punch January 05, 2018 16:18 UTC