Those who opposed Jonathan on Fuel Subsidy Removal now implementing same – Says Sanusi

The Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has said that those who resisted the removal of fuel subsidy during the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan are the same people now forced to implement the policy.

Sanusi stated this on Tuesday at the Oxford Global Think Tank Leadership Conference.

The former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor described the situation as a form of poetic justice.

“We talk about these things because it’s important; there is a kind of poetic justice that it is actually the people who led the Occupy Nigeria movement who ended up inheriting the problem and having to do it,” Sanusi said.

Explaining why Jonathan’s government compromised on the policy, Sanusi said security concerns at the height of the Boko Haram insurgency influenced the decision.

“The only reason the government compromised at that time and did 50 per cent to 100 per cent was Boko Haram,” he said.

According to him, thousands of Nigerians had trooped to the streets of Lagos, Kano, Kaduna and other cities to protest the subsidy removal.

“There was a fear that one day one of these suicide bombers would go to these Nigerians and detonate bombs, and you would have 200 corpses; it would no longer be about subsidy,” he added.