FG claims on fuel subsidy savings misleading, says Atiku

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has described the claims by the Minister of Finance, Taiwo Oyedele, that savings from the removal of fuel subsidy are being used to offset liabilities inherited from previous administrations as fundamentally misleading.
Atiku, who is also the 2027 presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), accused Oyedele of embarking on a “desperate exercise in revisionism.”
The former Vice President, according to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, said the minister’s claims on public debt, subsidy removal, debt servicing and workers’ welfare collapsed under the weight of publicly available fac...