{"id":38795,"date":"2015-05-21T22:58:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T21:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=38795"},"modified":"2015-05-21T22:58:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T21:58:34","slug":"cnpp-to-blair-youre-wrong-on-oil-subsidy-removal-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/cnpp-to-blair-youre-wrong-on-oil-subsidy-removal-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"CNPP to Blair: You\u2019re wrong on oil subsidy removal in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1432242510577_10668\" class=\"base-card-body\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1432242510577_10667\" class=\"msg-body inner  undoreset\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1432242510577_10666\" class=\"email-wrapped\">\n<div id=\"yiv5185637834\">\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1432242510577_10737\" dir=\"ltr\">The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties has rejected some postulations offered by a former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, on how the incoming All Progressives Congress federal administration should fix Nigeria.<br \/>\nMr. Blair, who was the guest speaker at the APC two-day Police Dialogue on the Implementation of the Agenda for Change in Abuja on Wednesday, urged the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, to \u201ctake advantage of that goodwill that comes with being elected to take difficult decisions that may inflict immediate pain, but in the long-term interest the country and government.\u201d<br \/>\nThe former PM, represented by Lord Mendelson, a chieftain of Labour Party in the United Kingdom, specifically cited Indonesia as an example where President Joko Widodo removed oil subsidy, was short of suggesting that the incoming administration should do the same.<br \/>\n\u201cOne of the first things he did when he was inaugurated in October was to smash Indonesia\u2019s hugely expensive and inefficient, yet popular fuel subsidy,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nIn a statement by its spokesperson, Osita Okechukwu on Thursday, the CNPP said Mr. Blair\u2019s solution would not work in Nigeria since oil subsidy in the country, to a very large extent, differs from the ones in Indonesia and other countries.<br \/>\nIt alleged that those who propounded the nebulous economic policy that government has no business in business, which simulated pervasive corruption, created huge inequality gap and pauperised Nigerians, were at it again.<br \/>\n\u201cIn our own case the issue is pure and simple, unbridled corruption. Our position is that there is little or no subsidy. Nigerians have suffered enough and do not need more impoverishment,\u201d the group said.<br \/>\n\u201cSecondly, we have implicit confidence that General Muhammadu Buhari will wage a strident war against corruption in the oil and other sectors. Our vote for him was predicated on his uncommon integrity and antecedent of an anti-graft warlord.\u201d<br \/>\nThe CNPP said it would interest the former British leader and those championing the removal of oil subsidy in Nigeria to know that from 2010 to 2013 alone, the subsidy tariff rose from N680 million to N2.6 trillion.<br \/>\n\u201cCan this pass any prudent and genuine forensic financial scrutiny? Or can GMB support such travesty? It asked.<br \/>\n\u201cOur worry in the CNPP is that a lot of economic theories are being woven around with utter disregard to GMB\u2019s innate economic policy stand-point, which is transparently pro-people; hence his celestial bond with the Nigerian masses.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cAre they telling us that the new refineries GMB pledged in his campaign will not come on stream or is impossible? This is a man that built the Warri and Kaduna refineries as Minister of Petroleum and we have implicit confidence that he will fulfil his pledge.\u201d<br \/>\nThe group also reminded Mr. Blair that Mr. Buhari is by far different from the outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan, who could not fulfil his promise of building three Greenfield refineries whose contracts were awarded to a Chinese firm at $23 billion but which later abandoned them.<br \/>\nThe CNPP pleaded with the former PM to assist Mr. Buhari to source for genuine Foreign Direct Investment for critical infrastructure in Nigeria.<br \/>\n\u201cFor as late icon, Professor Chinua Achebe wrote in his seminal treatise \u2013 Trouble with Nigeria \u2013 the character of one man could establish that quantum change in a people\u2019s social behaviour that social miracles can happen,\u201d it said.<br \/>\n\u201cFinally, Mr Blair should not forget that it is not immediate pain but Foreign Direct Investment from Charles Yerkes, JP Morgan and co, which revolutionized the London Underground railway system, in the last century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Premium Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"base-card-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties has rejected some postulations offered by a former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, on how the incoming All Progressives Congress federal administration should fix&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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