Bakare to Jonathan: Delete subsidy removal from your dictionary

The General Overseer of Latter Rain Assembly in Lagos, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has said there would be mass revolt against removal of subsidy being planned by the federal government just as he said he would take active part in the protest.The vice Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) during the last general elections therefore asked President Goodluck Jonathan to delete subsidy removal from his dictionary or risk being push out of office.Bakare, the leader of the Save Nigeria Group also noted that the group will mobilize against the government if the oil subsidy is finally removed.According to him, the federal government is not sincere with the issue of subsidy. 'The government is not subsidizing as people were made to believe. What the government is subsidizing is the alternative cost of importation which is as a result of their laziness', he said.Addressing his church members earlier in the week, Bakare said the confusion created by the federal government on oil subsidy was uncalled for. 'The government should not think of removing oil subsidy in any ramification because people have been pushed to the wall,' he said.He said the government must stop the rampant corruption in the fuel importation activities adding, 'What we are saying is that new refineries need be built. Nigeria has no business importing fuel. It is obvious that the four refineries in the country are currently operating below capacity. If they are old, let the government build new ones to meet local demand.
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