Activist Omoyele Sowore has described fellow presidential candidates who plan to restore fuel subsidy as lying machines.

The presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, Atiku Abubakar, is basing his campaign on restoring fuel subsidy, which was ended by President Bola Tinubu.

Also jumping on the idea is Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, the vice-presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, despite his principal, Peter Obi, saying otherwise.

Reacting, Sowore wrote on X, "The lying machines have suddenly realised that their position on fuel subsidy is deeply unpopular. Now the dance around “restoring” subsidy has begun: vague promises, convenient reversals, and dishonest attempts to rewrite their own records.

"They can no longer sustain their past positions anywhere, whether in the North or the South. As public anger grows over the consequences of subsidy removal, they keep shifting, twisting and grifting, hoping Nigerians will forget what they said and what they supported.

"We have been consistent since the beginning of life, fuel subsidy should never have been removed in the first place. We will restore it transparently and confront the corruption and profiteering that were used as excuses for punishing ordinary Nigerians.

"They are shifting because the people remember. We are not shifting."

ASA