Tinubu Has Done What Buhari Lacked Courage To Do In Eight Years – Magnus Abe

Senator Magnus Abe has strongly defended the removal of fuel subsidy by President Bola Tinubu as a major economic booster for the economy which he said has also differentiated him from his predecessor, President Muhammadu Buhari.

Senator Abe has also praised the capacity of the president to weave political connections across divisions noting that it was that instinct that made Atiku Abubakar run to him for shelter when he was in distress in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP during the Olusegun Obasanjo years.

Speaking on Channels Television on Tuesday evening, Abe who was the Social Democratic Party, SDP governorship candidate in Rivers State in the last general election also hailed the elections as the best in the history of the country which according to him were only marred by human interventions.

Rebuffing claims that the removal of fuel subsidy had doubled the cost of living for the average Nigerian, Abe, who was a former board member of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC said:

“Progress is not about what things cost, it is about the ability of the average person to make more money and in this Nigeria outside of stealing or criminality, there is no opportunity for that man presently making N100,000 to improve on that his N100,000. So he is stuck, he has no hope. What the policy of this president is going to do is that it is going to expand the opportunity for the average Nigerian so that that man that is making N100,000 when this policy begins to percolate into the economy he will have the opportunity to be able to be making N200,000.

“Even in the downstream sector more people will get in and more people will make more money and the whole thing is about making more money and Tinubu understands money.”

Affirming that Tinubu was the most coureagous of recent Nigerian presidents given the promptness he abolished the subsidy regime, he pooh-poohed the claim by Mallam Garba Shehu that Buhari dilly-dallied because of the elections.

According to him, Buhari had eight years to take a decision on the issue and even had the opportunity to remove the subsidy after the elections but did not do so, Abe said.

“The removal of the oil subsidy could have been done anytime within the last eight years and he could have done it even after the election,” Abe said.

While noting President Tinubu’s political dexterity he said that he was able to forge an alliance that brought the progressive Southwest with the conservative North that enthroned Buhari as president and subsequently took up the presidency for himself.

Senator Abe in asserting that Tinubu was politically superior to Atiku said that the former vice-president ran to the former Lagos State governor when he was in political distress who provided him with a platform and funding for the 2007 presidential election.

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