Fuel Crisis: Onuesoke Urges Soyinka, Falana, Odumakin, Utomi, Other Activists to Speak Out

Sylvester Idowu in Warri

As the scarcity of fuel continues to bite harder in the yuletide season, A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta State, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has called on Nigerian acclaimed activists and human right defenders to speak out in order to save the people from the present hardship.

Onuesoke particularly called on renowned activists like Professor Wole Soyinka, Adams Oshiomole, Femi Falana, Joy Odumakin, Dr. Pat Utomi and others who were at the forefront of 2012 fuel protest during President Goodluck Jonathan government to equally speak out against the present hardship the masses are facing from the present fuel scarcity.

The former governorship aspirant in Delta State, who made the appeal after purchasing fuel at N420 per litre, said the hardship Nigerians are going through now is a manifestation that the All Progressive Congress (APC)-led federal government has no plan to develop the country.

He lamented that despite the high price of fuel, an evidence that the APC-led government does not have anything to offer, as the commodity is not available, adding that it is also an irony of life that the activists expected to assist the masses in time of need have abandoned them to their fate.

Onuesoke argued that if the so-called activists did not speak out against the present hardship caused by the present government it then means they are taking side with the APC-led government.

“What are Soyinka, Femi Falana, Odumakins, Pastor Bakares and others who claimed to be activists and defenders of the masses doing now that the prices of the commodities went to the roof top and it is not available presently?
“When President Jonathan wanted to deregulate the oil sector and increase fuel pump price they protested. They shut down the country for six days. Then they claimed they were fighting for the interest of their generations.

“But when this present government which promised to reduce fuel pump price during campaign removed fuel subsidy and increased fuel pump price from N65 to N145 per litre, none of them raised an eye brow. They pretended as if they were not aware of the astronomical increase of fuel pump price by President Muhammadu Buhari’s government. That is the hypocrisy of the Western people. They are the enemies of the country,” he alleged.