Sani warns ex-Governors are liabilities, applauds technocrats as assets
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Former Senator Shehu Sani has warned that former Governors Bola Tinubu picked for ministerial jobs are liabilities to a President seeking to change the Nigerian trajectory of failed governance weighed down by corruption.
Tinubu’s ministerial list sent to the Senate for screening and confirmation contains nine former Governors, a list that has elicited mixed reactions from citizens.
The Senate has cleared and confirmed all the former Governors for the federal cabinet, except Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna who has a petition against him and whose credentials the Chamber is still interrogating.
“The technocrats in Tinubu’s Government represent his assets, and the former Governors in his cabinet represent his liabilities,” Sani posted on Twitter (now renamed X by Elon Musk), via reporting by Tribune.
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Sani tasks Tinubu to neutralise fuel subsidy racketeers
Sani has previously applauded Tinubu for yanking off fuel subsidy from the budget, saying the President has declared war on agitators who support the use of subsidy to steal from the treasury.
Sani, who has always supported removal of subsidy, insisted fuel stations shutting down within 24 hours of the removal of subsidy is a blackmail.
“Shutting down petrol stations on the announcement of the removal of petroleum subsidy is the usual blackmail by the subsidy cartel. It’s time to neutralise the subsidy parasites,” he tweeted.
He reiterated Abuja has spent billions of naira on fuel subsidy which experts say is not sustainable.
IPMAN on strategy and timing of subsidy removal
Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) National Public Relations Officer, Ukadike Chinedu, argued the new government should have dialogued with marketers before removing subsidy.
“We are not in support of the removal of fuel subsidy at this time. We have said it repeatedly that our refineries should be fixed before taking such a decision that will cause galloping inflation and inflict more hardship on the masses,” he stressed.
“Rather the new government should sit and discuss with marketers and other stakeholders on how to manage the fuel subsidy regime.
“We now have the Dangote Refinery, but all our refineries are still not working, so we don’t think removing subsidy is the right thing to do now.”
