Ozekhome urged the Tinubu administration to quit blaming past administrations of Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari and fix the challenges facing the country.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Legal luminary, Mike Ozekhome (SAN), has said that President Bola Tinubu started governance on a wrong footing by declaring the removal of fuel subsidy without first working out ways to reduce the effect on the populace.
The senior advocate stated this in an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday night.
Ozekhome urged the Tinubu administration to quit blaming past administrations of Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari and fix the challenges facing the country.
He said, “It is most embarrassing to me when I see officials of this government blaming a Jonathan government that left office is 2015; almost 10 years ago.
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“Even, ironically, blaming their own predecessor that they took over from under the APC government. I think everything has gone wrong. I think, this government needs to go back to the drawing board.
“The truth is that this government started on a very wrong footing. You removed subsidy without any attempt to cushion the devastating effect of its removal.
“In other words, Nigeria has gone back to where we were before 1983, where it was actually hunger and starvation. Tai Solarin panel of committee that was set up to standardise prices of food stuff. We are back there.”