Fresh fuel price hike will cause public restiveness – PDP

The People’s Democratic Party on Saturday said any fresh fuel price hike would amount to pushing the already impoverished Nigerians to the wall and might cause public restiveness and acerbate agitations in the land.

The party, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said: “Nigerians are groaning heavily under the weight of economic hardship and high costs occasioned by the unjustified increase in the price of fuel to an unbearable N170 per liter last November.

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“There’s no way our compatriots can survive a further fuel price increase with its attendant increase in cost of goods and services, which will worsen the current agonizing economic situation where over 90m citizens live in abject poverty with an alarming 23% unemployment rate and many more living below N500 a day.”