Onanuga urges Nigerians to stop attacking Tinubu

Veteran journalist and Director, Media and Publicity of the defunct Tinubu-Shettima Campaign Organisation, Bayo Onanuga has called on Nigerians to make only constructive criticism while commenting on the decision of President Bola Tinubu’s administration to remove fuel subsidy rather than attack him.

He gave the advice recently via his social media page, where he also urged the citizens of the country to be patient with the new administration.

Onanuga in the now-viral post, acknowledged that the hike in price of fuel caused by the removal of fuel subsidy has adversely affected a lot of Nigerians, but added that those in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) are equally feeling the heat.

The APC chieftain went on to plead with people to await the palliative that would be put in place to mitigate the effect of the subsidy removal and ruled out the possibility of returning the suspended fuel subsidy scheme, which he described as “fraudulent”.

Taking to his Twitter handle, Onanuga wrote: “In this season of high fuel price, I want to plead with our people to exercise some patience. We are all jointly experiencing the pain. All those intemperate attacks against the new government of President Bola Tinubu should stop.

“Let’s await the palliatives as his government has promised. Let’s await the palliatives that will flow from each state as more money is channeled to them from the subsidy savings.

“We cannot go back to the hyper fraudulent subsidy regime where we were spending more money on petrol than on roads, education and health.

“My people, patience, patience please. I beg you all. No country has ever made progress without the people going through some pains. Our country under Tinubu’s watch shall certainly excel”.