…Demands FG to rescind decision within 28 days or face mass action
…Insists FG, Govs. have failed Nigerians
The Coalition of Northern Groups, (CNG), North-Central zone, and the student’s wing of the North-Central Youth Association, as well as other civil society groups, have issued a 28-day ultimatum to President Muhammadu Buhari warning him not to attempt the Government’s planned increase in the prices of petroleum products warning that there would be dire consequences, while describing the Federal and State governments as ‘failures’.
The groups issued the warning at the weekend, after a one-day stakeholders meeting which was held in Minna, the Niger State capital, vowed to resist the government should it decide to go ahead with its plan.
The groups, according to a communique, at the end of its meeting, read by its North-Central coordinator, Comrade Mohammed Mohammed, averred that any increase in petroleum products’ prices would further worsen the sufferings of Nigerians, saying that “such an action will amount to sending a majority of Nigerians to their early graves”, especially those in Northern Nigeria, who are already on ‘life support machine’ due to the current hardship.
According to the groups, the planned increase in the pump price of fuel is a clear indication that “Nigeria’s current leadership appears incapable, or unwilling, to lead the people out of their multiple economic, social and security challenges.
“The current administration of President Muhammadu Buhari and all the 36 State governors of the federation, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) administration, have completely failed in the major areas of providing security and protecting the lives and properties of the citizens and ensuring a secured economic environment for growth and development of the country”, the groups stated, adding that the reasons given by the government for the planned increase in fuel price “are traceable only to inept and insensitive leadership at the national and State levels”.
The groups further said it would begin a campaign to sensitise Northern societies and groups to support “a sustained resistance to force the government to immediately rescind the implementation of this unpopular, corrupt and inhuman policy or risk an unprecedented mass action and civil disobedience,”.
The CNG further labeled the Federal Government’s promise of N5,000 palliative to 40 million vulnerable Nigerians to cushion effects of subsidy removal as “unfounded lies, unwarranted, fake, impracticable, ill-intended and unacceptably disgusting”.
The groups further maintained that “the plan to hike the fuel price in the face of the ongoing intractable challenges to the security of life and property in the country, especially in the North, represents an act of hostility against the people by the leaders that have the primary responsibility to protect them”.
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