The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the ‘new’ pump prices of petrol as announced on Tuesday by the federal government as very meagre and cannot justify the claim on subsidy removal by the APC -led administration.
The party said the move was nothing but a continuation of the government by deception being practised by the APC. In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, on Wednesday, PDP said apart from its deceptive element, the reduction in the N87 per litre pump price to N86 and N86.50 per litre for the retail outlets of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and retail outlets of private business concerns respectively offered too little to cheer.
The announcement of this tokenism has come as a disappointing anti-climax, considering that only in January this year, the PDP federal government reduced the pump price from N97 to N87 per litre.