Nigeria: Atiku's Petrol Subsidy Proposal Fails the Economic Test and Raises More Questions Than Answers

[This Day] Any presidential candidate promising to restore petrol subsidy without publishing its cost, funding source and safeguards is not presenting an economic policy. He is selling an illusion to a distressed electorate.

An APC chieftain warns that Atiku Abubakar’s proposal to restore fuel subsidy could bring back a corrupt era of fraud and diversion of public funds in Nige

ABUJA — Kenneth Okonkwo, spokesperson for the 2027 presidential campaign of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, has dismissed criticism of Atiku’s plan to restore petrol subsidy if elected, saying the proposal is aimed at reducing fuel prices and has nothing to do with the subsidy regime of the past. Okonkwo, who spo