The Director of Media and Special Duties of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council, Femi Fani-Kayode, has said the party is taking painful decisions because it is a means of moving Nigeria forward.
Femi Fani-Kayode stated this while answering a question on how the party intended to deregulate the oil sector during an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today.
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Fani-Kayode, who admitted the decision is hard, said that it the duty of the party and a government to ensure that the suffering of those affected by the policy is ameliorated to some certain degree.
He said, “We mean what we say: total deregulation step-by-step. Of course there are issues with that. When you deregulate, there are pains felt by those that are affected by those deregulations. But it’s our duty as a party and a government to ensure that those in pains are ameliorated to some certain degree, to some certain extent.
“That’s the path that we have been chosen, that is the way forward to do what we believe will be the best for the Nigerian people. Whatever it’s that will affect their fortunes in terms of hardship as the consequences of that policies will be looked into and necessary palliatives be put in place to ensure that the pain is not too much. But as a policy, that’s the only way forward.”
