Returning subsidy will cripple North, APC warns

.As party receives defecting ADC candidates
By Omeiza Ajayi
ABUJA: National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, on Monday warned that any return of fuel subsidy would cripple Northern Nigeria, saying it would end road, gas and fertiliser projects and push northerners back into poverty.
Yilwatda spoke at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja while receiving candidates of the African Democratic Congress ADC for various State Houses of Assembly in the North who withdrew from the race and defected to the APC.
The delegation was led by Princess Aslam Aliyu, also known as Gimbiyar Kauran Namoda, while Hon. Mohammed Hassan, an ADC candida...