{"id":46314,"date":"2024-08-10T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T08:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/fuel-subsidy-be-sincere-to-nigerians-bode-george-challenges-tinubu-govt\/"},"modified":"2024-08-10T08:00:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T08:00:23","slug":"fuel-subsidy-be-sincere-to-nigerians-bode-george-challenges-tinubu-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/fuel-subsidy-be-sincere-to-nigerians-bode-george-challenges-tinubu-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel subsidy: Be sincere to Nigerians \u2013 Bode George challenges Tinubu govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A chieftain of the People Democratic Party, PDP, Bode George, has charged President Bola Tinubu to disclose the true state of fuel subsidy to Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>George said Tinubu should tell Nigerians if his administration still pays subsidy on fuel through the back-doors.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Arise Television, the former PDP deputy national chairman, knocked Tinubu\u2019s administration for lack of transparency.<\/p>\n<p>There have been reports that the Tinubu government secretly returned the fuel subsidy regime.<\/p>\n<p>Former governor of Bauchi State, Isa Yuguda accused the Federal Government of paying more for fuel subsidy than before.<\/p>\n<p>Amid this claim, the Minister of Finance, Wale Edun disclosed that Nigeria currently spends $600m on fuel importation monthly.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, George said: \u201cI\u2019m so miffed about the goings on about this particular industry. On one side you hear the subsidy is still there, on another side you hear that there is no subsidy, who is telling the truth?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet us know the truth for God\u2019s sake, it is our fundamental right and if the people know what the truth is, they will support you to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NNPCL is owned by the Federal government which means it is owned by all Nigerians, we want to know what exactly is going on there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not in that field of operation, but I\u2019m educated enough to listen to A and listen to B and then conclude in mind if there is need to support the operations or the policies of the government we will and if there are shortfalls in what they are telling us, we will say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fuel subsidy: Be sincere to Nigerians \u2013 Bode George challenges Tinubu govt<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chieftain of the People Democratic Party, PDP, Bode George, has charged President Bola Tinubu to disclose the true state&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6702,6069,15,466],"tags":[8,6703,1749,4680,2476,512,180,905,23484,4305,26],"class_list":["post-46314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bode-george","category-fuel-subsidy","category-news","category-tinubu","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-bode","tag-challenges","tag-fuel","tag-george","tag-govt","tag-news","tag-nigerians","tag-sincere","tag-subsidy","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - 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