Joe Okei-Odumakin urges Nigerians to reject fuel hike and electricity tariff increase

President of Centre for Change and Women Arise, Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin has called on Nigerians to stand up to the government and reject policies aimed at plunging Nigerians into further hardship and unbearable cost of living in the country.

Okei-Odumakin, who was reacting to the recent fuel hike and increase in electricity tariff described the recent development as a “woeful combination of hardship from a government that was making sweet promises to the people over a year ago”.

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She held that the recent increase in electricity tariff and price of PMS was ill-timed, and called on Nigerians to stand up to the government’s recent anti-peoples’ policies.

She said, “To choose a moment when governments around the world are looking for ways to make life bearable for their peoples in the midst of Coronavirus cannot be an attitude reflective of a caring government.

“These steps are not acceptable and should not be accepted. Nigerians are encouraged to rediscover themselves and say clear no to these measures.

“While the Buhari government should have taken the respite offered by the patience of the people as golden opportunity to fulfill its election promises of a better life for Nigerians, it should not take it as liberty to continue to inflict further hardship on the people.”