Tinubu’s camp reacts to NLC’s opposition to planned subsidy removal

The Chief Spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), Festus Keyamo (SAN), has cautioned the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) not to incite the masses against the decision of the incoming administration of Bola Tinubu to remove fuel subsidy, noting that the Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, similarly endorsed the subsidy removal during the build-up to the February 25 polls.

POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the NLC and the Labour Party have a common history as the party is an offspring of the NLC.

Reacting to the NLC and the Trade Union Congress (TUC’s) opposition to the planned subsidy removal, Keyamo dismissed their stance, insisting that NLC had no moral right to ask the Federal Government to retain fuel subsidy when it openly endorsed a presidential candidate that called for its removal.

“This was what I have been saying since last year. All of you in the media did not give it any attention. I knew what was coming. That was why I kept asking why the NLC was supporting Peter Obi and his Labour Party.

“Organised labour has no moral right to turn around this time to say they want to uphold fuel subsidy when removal of fuel subsidy was one of the cardinal campaign points of Peter Obi. Yet, the NLC threw their weight behind him. What moral justification do they have to want to uphold it now?

“At the end of the day, it is political. So, they should tell the nation why they did that. Now is the time for judgment,” Punch, on Monday, quotes Keyamo as saying.