Nigerians can't survive fuel, electricity price increment - PDP tells Buhari

Nigeria's largest opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the recent removal in fuel and electricity subsidy, noting that Nigerians can not survive it.

According to the PDP, the level of poverty affecting majority of Nigerians will make it difficult for Nigerians to survive the recent hikes.

A statement by PDP’s spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan wondered why President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government would increase the price of petrol and electricity tariff after admitting that over 90 million Nigerians live in poverty, The Nations said.

Ologbondiyan said: “There is no way our countrymen and women can survive the obnoxious hike in the cost of fuel and electricity, as currently imposed by the Buhari administration, given the level of poverty the administration had already foisted on our
nation.

“Indeed, we find it very inconceivable that after the Federal Government, through the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, confirmed that 90 million Nigerians are living in poverty, it still went ahead to increase the cost of essential commodities that drive our economy.

“Nigerians are already in trepidation that the excruciating price increase is a sudden death sentence on many citizens, particularly those living below the poverty line, as they cannot survive under a worsened economic situation.”