President Muhammadu Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu has defended the recent increase in petroleum pump price and increas in electricity tariffs by the Nigerian Government amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
Recall that Nigerians, including Nigeria Labour Congress and the opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP have continued to condemn the increase.
Shehu in a Twitter post mock the PDP asked Nigerians not to be deceived by the party.
“Don’t allow the PDP to deceive you, amidst acute shortages, they sold petrol at N600 per litre on Easter Sunday in 2013 (See Punch published on that day),” he said.
The Nigerian Government had through the Petroleum Products Marketing Company increased the ex-depot price of petrol from N138.62 to N151.56 per litre. Following the increment, petrol marketers raised the price of the product from N148 to between N158 and N162 per litre.
This came days after electricity distribution companies in the country began the implementation of the new cost-reflective electricity tariff.
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