ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Bayo Onanuga, the Director of Media and Publicity for the dissolved All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, says that the planned protest by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) is a scheme by Peter Obi’s Labour Party to destabilize the Tinubu government.
Mr. Onanuga accused NLC leader Joe Ajaero of acting out Labour Party’s script targeted at destabilising the Tinubu’s government with protests.
In a statement on his social media pages, he wrote “My advice to the perceptive workers and the Nigerian populace is simply to ignore Ajaero and his ilk.
“He is playing politics and is actually acting the script of the opposition Labour Party, out to destabilise the young Tinubu administration.”
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Onanuga’s statement comes as a response to planned protest by the NLC against fuel pump price increment, following the removal of fuel subsidy by President Tinubu.
The NLC had on Friday announced its decision to “embark on a nationwide action and withdrawal of services, against the fraudulent increase in the price of fuel across the thirty-six states of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the FCT.”
Tinubu, in his inaugural speech on 29 May, said “subsidy is gone”. His pronouncement however, triggered panic across the country as citizens rush to buy fuel while oil marketers suddenly increase pump price.
On 31 May, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) announced pump price increment that saw petrol price skyrocket from N195 to N540 nationwide.