Fuel Scarcity: APC-led FG Has Failed Nigerians, Says ADP

Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja

The Action Democratic Party (ADP) has chastised the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for its inability to find lasting solutions to recurring incidence of fuel scarcity bedeviling the country.

The party said the APC-led federal government should bury its head in shame for not fulfilling a promise made to the people to end fuel supply crisis.

In a statement issued thursday by its Director, Media and Publicity, Kayode Jacobs, the party said it was not enough to always give excuses for failure to meet expectations of the people but that as a party in government, APC should strive to solve problems when they arise.

According to the National Chairman of the party, Yabagi Sani, one of the major reasons Nigerians trusted their destinies in the hands of President Muhammadu Buhari was the boast on having solutions to rampant fuel crises and subsidy regime but only two years after, the queues are back and government remains helpless with evidence that nothing concrete had been done to permanently solve the problem.

The ADP chairman, who carpeted the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, for saying the fuel crisis is shameful, and that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and not government is paying subsidy at this time, asked whether NNPC is different from government.

“Who is responsible for the shameful handling of the fuel crisis and on whose behalf is NNPC doing business? he queried.

Yabagi submitted that it was a shame that this government is still faced with the option of having to approve increment in pump price or pay subsidy.

“I think the government should be responsible enough to admit its failures and frustrations instead of giving excuses on the past and pointing fingers at the opposition.

“We at the ADP indeed sympathise with Nigerians who had to go through untold hardship to rejoin their families at Christmas; he lamented, and said the party is aware many Nigerians may have to sell personal effects to return to work now or in January.

“It is our hope that the APC government will apologise and proffer solutions in the 13 months remaining before the curtain is drawn on their tenure,” he said