Fuel Subsidy Removal: Reno Omokri Blasts Peter Obi Over Tinubu Criticism
Media figure, Reno Omokri, has slated Peter Obi for asking President Bola Tinubu to account for the expenditures of funds accruing from the removal of fuel subsidy in Nigeria.
The Labour Party Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, had, earlier, called for the President to point to the projects which fuel subsidy funds were being allocated to.
The Eluu P man also queried why Nigeria’s debt is on the up and the cost of living continually rising.
‘’We need more transparency and when you talk about transparency in terms of figures, you show it, you elucidate it. One plus one is two. It is not something you say it is just two because of ..tell us how we arrived at it and we will believe.
“When we talk about subsidy, I continuously say it, if we are removing subsidy, what are we replacing it with? where are we applying that subsidy we removed to? So if you say to me I have removed subsidy, I am going to use it to build this number of classroom to be able to pull out of school children into school, then we can verify and follow and track those schools.
“When we have issues in primary healthcare especially issues of infant mortality, removal of fuel subsidy will enable us build this number of primary health care in different….we can measure it. You don’t remove something without saying what it replaces and where are we moving our money to. Or it is helping us manage our debt. Here we have fuel subsidy removed and the debt is increasing and we are not seeing anything,” Obi queried.
In an apparent defence of Tinubu, Reno Omokri challenged Obi to account for his campaign spending, first, before questioning Tinubu.
‘’This is rich coming from a man who cannot even track his own campaign spending from donations made by Nigerians in the diaspora. We listened to the embattled Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, as he regaled us with details of how Peter Obi and his cronies seized control of campaign funds, did as they wished with it, and did not put their own party into the know of how those funds were spent,” Omokri began.
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“Moreover, this is a fellow who, as Anambra Governor, did not do what he now asks the Federal Government to do. Instead, he placed state funds into a bank where he had controlling interests and was earning money for himself at the state’s expense.
“A man who hid suspicious funds away in offshore accounts until they were exposed by the Pandora Papers, which indicted him for criminal behaviour, is not in a position to pontificate as if he is a saint.
“If Peter Obi cannot be accountable to his own party and cannot transparently track funds donated to his campaign or avoid a conflict of interest in handling state government funds, what moral grounds does he have to point fingers at others?” Reno Omokri stated.
This will not be the first time Reno Omkri has clashed with Peter Obi, with the former constantly attacking Peter Obi on his social media handles over differing views.
