{"id":49496,"date":"2016-05-23T11:21:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T10:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=49496"},"modified":"2016-05-23T11:21:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T10:21:40","slug":"subsidy-opposed-jonathan-bakare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/subsidy-opposed-jonathan-bakare\/","title":{"rendered":"Subsidy: Why we opposed Jonathan&#8212;&#8212; Bakare"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mailview-right\" class=\"offset uibox\">\n<div id=\"messagecontent\">\n<div class=\"leftcol\">\n<div id=\"messagebody\">\n<div class=\"message-htmlpart\">\n<div class=\"rcmBody\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pastor Tunde Bakare has said his group kicked against subsidy removal in 2012,\u00a0 because they wanted former President Goodluck Jonathan to investigate the subsidy regime and recover stolen funds before commencing the discourse on subsidy removal.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bakare, alongside his Save Nigeria Group had in 2012 kicked against the removal of subsidy by the then president Goodluck Jonathan.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The cleric addressed journalists in Lagos on Sunday over the fuel price hike.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bakare, who was running mate to Buhari in 2011 presidential election in his address, entitled, \u201cThe courage to do the right things,\u201d said those who alleged that he kept quiet on the fuel price hike were not sincere.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to him, the current situation differed significantly from the \u201ccorruption-ridden 2012 subsidy crisis\u201d that he condemned then.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said, \u201cIn 2012, we were not against the economic arguments behind fuel subsidy removal. Instead, we wanted the government to investigate the subsidy regime, bring culprits in the maladministration of that regime to book and recover stolen funds before commencing the policy discourse around subsidy removal.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe have not changed our earlier conviction in spite of a change in government. We have only acknowledged that the new government has persistently demonstrated its anti-corruption stance while seeking policy solutions to the economic crisis, though there have been gaps in policy management.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe had expected that, in response to our call earlier in the year, the government would have consulted extensively with stakeholders and embarked upon extensive communication and enlightenment campaigns across the social spectrum, with particular attention to the middle class and the grassroots, on the new price regime prior to its introduction.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis would have been a better-received sequence than the sudden policy introduction and the after-the-fact approach to informing and enlightening Nigerians.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"message\" class=\"statusbar\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\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>Pastor Tunde Bakare has said his group kicked against subsidy removal in 2012,\u00a0 because they wanted former President Goodluck Jonathan to investigate the subsidy regime and recover stolen funds before&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":24502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49496","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Subsidy: Why we opposed Jonathan- Bakare - Pointblank News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/subsidy-opposed-jonathan-bakare\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Subsidy: Why we opposed Jonathan- Bakare - Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pastor Tunde Bakare has said his group kicked against subsidy removal in 2012,\u00a0 because they wanted former President Goodluck Jonathan to investigate the subsidy regime and recover stolen funds before&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/subsidy-opposed-jonathan-bakare\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-05-23T10:21:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/bakare.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/subsidy-opposed-jonathan-bakare\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/subsidy-opposed-jonathan-bakare\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"headline\":\"Subsidy: Why we opposed Jonathan&#8212;&#8212; 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