Fuel Subsidy: Sanusi, Emir of Kano, Mocks President Tinubu

By Gideon Njoku

The 16th Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi 11,  has blamed President Bola Tinubu for the pains Nigerians are going through over the removal of fuel subsidy.

The Emir who spoke Tuesday at the Oxford Global Think Tank blamed Tinubu and compatriots for the delay in the removal of fuel subsidy in 2011 during the President Goodluck Jonathan Government.

Sanusi recalled that as President, Jonathan had tried to implement  the removal of fuel subsidy, but was vehemently resisted by the opposition leaders  led by then Senator Tinubu.

In their thousands,  they camped out in Lagos and protested for days  against the removal of fuel subsidy. Jonathan was called all kinds of names, and a mock casket for him, carried during the protest.

Sanusi saw that protest as a draw- back for the Nation’s economic  recovery. The delay in removing the fuel subsidy, he said, was bad for the economy and pointed out the irony of those who protested against the removal turning round to champion and implement it about a decade later.

Emir Sanusi: “If Nigerians had allowed Jonathan to remove the subsidy in 2011, there would have been pain, but that pain would have been a very tiny fraction of what we are facing today.”