PDP youths threaten nationwide protest over fuel hike
The youth frontiers of The Peoples Democratic Party has said that it is setting plans in motion to organise nationwide protests over the increase in pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS).
The group disclosed this via Usman Austin Okai, National Coordinator of the group, following an emergency meeting with members on Thursday.
Okai said the new price was aimed at crippling the indigent in society and further making life difficult for the common Nigerian.
He said, “It is unthinkable to review upward, electricity tarrif,when more than 70 per cent of Nigerians are not on prepaid meters, but estimated billings, saying it is tantamount to shortchange of the poor in the society.
“The increase in pump price of petroleum products, always has multiplier effects on the living standard of ordinary Nigerians, without commensurate adjustment of workers salaries and allowances, saying this is capable of creating uneasy calm in the country.”
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Okai also lamented that instead of devising means to cushion the economic difficulty occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic, that government has taken the ordinary man along the high road of scrapping the barrel to afford basic necessities.
“It is expected of the Nigeria Government to create more palliative outlets to cushion the effects of post COVID-19 time, occasioned by rise in both services, supplies and items in the market not affordable to ordinary citizens.”
The group cautioned that should the federal government fail to reverse the recent increase in electricity tariff and PMS, they would be forced to stage a nationwide protest across major cities in the country.
