Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has told President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the blame-game over the fuel scarcity in Nigeria.
Fayose said the president should “take responsibility and stop blame game for once.”
Speaking on the fuel scarcity, president Buhari had said in his New Year broadcast that, “some of our compatriots chose this period to inflict hardship on us all, by creating unnecessary fuel scarcity across the country and whatever groups that are behind this manipulated hardship will be prevented from doing so again.”
In his response, Fayose said: “The president should rather take responsibility, apologise to Nigerians and stop blaming others for his failures because, apologising when you are wrong is the hallmark of honest and sincere leaders.
“What is wrong if he had said sorry to Nigerians who are at the receiving end of his bad policies? But, in the case of president Buhari, he will always have someone to blame for his failure.
“As a military head of state, he blamed former president Shehu Shagari’s administration.
“Since he assumed office, he has been blaming his predecessor and now that he cannot provide fuel for Nigerians, despite claiming to have removed fuel subsidy, he is blaming some unknown Nigerians. When is he going to be man enough to stop his blame game?”
The governor further said that rather than blaming people, “what Nigerians expected to hear from the president was what had been done and is being done to stop the loss of millions of jobs and hunger ravaging the land as well as wanton killings going on across the country.
“Nigerians are aware that petrol is scarce across the country because the Federal Government deliberately reduced supply since it is only the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that is importing the product.
“This is because they want to force increment of pump price from N145 to N185 per litre on Nigerians.
“The other time, Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, said NNPC was bearing the cost of fuel subsidy and not the federal government and we asked; what is the difference between NNPC and the federal government? Who is NNPC and who is federal government? Is NNPC now an autonomous agency of the federal government?” Fayose queried.