The former Governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi, on Monday said he would have also implemented some of President Bola Tinubu’s policies.
According to him, he would have removed the fuel subsidy and also floated the Naira, allowing market forces to determine its value, but he would not have done so in the manner Tinubu’s went about it.
Obi, who made this known during his appearance on Arise TV on Monday, said he would have gone about the implementation in an and organised” manner.
He noted that it’s clear to everyone that the subsidy regime is embroilery in corruption, and in his manifesto while vying for the presidency in 2023, it is stated that he supports ending it.
“I have consistently maintained that I would have removed the fuel subsidy,” he said, as reported by theCable. “If you go to my manifesto, it is there and the steps I would have taken in an organised manner.
“There is nothing wrong with the removal of fuel subsidy. What is wrong is the haphazard way in which it was announced and implemented.”
Obi, however, questioned the transparency of the Tinubu administration.
He noted that removing fuel subsidy ought to limit the country’s borrowing and save billions that will be used to develop critical infrastructures, but none exists.
“Everybody knows critical areas of development,” he said. “Education, health, and pulling people out of poverty. Have any of these three improved? No.”
On the floating of the currency, he said he wouldn’t have rushed to implement the policy, noting that that it will only come after the country can produce enough.
“There is nothing wrong in floating and devaluing your currency,” Obi added. “You do this when you have productivity.
“In all of this, I would have done the same thing in an organised manner.”
