Subsidy: You are inordinately ambitious – Showunmi blasts Atiku

Convener of The Alternative, Otunba Segun Showunmi, has criticised former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s proposal to restore petrol subsidy, describing it as overtly and inordinately ambitious.
Showunmi said Nigeria would never return to Egypt, insisting that subsidy has failed.
Recall that Atiku, presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, for the 2027 election, had said he would restore petrol subsidy if elected, arguing that Nigerians should benefit from the country’s resources and that its removal had worsened living conditions.
But Showunmi, speaking in Abeokuta on Saturday during a sensitisation and mobilisation programme in support of President Bola Tinub...