Former Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has said that Nigerians who opposed the removal of fuel subsidy under former President Goodluck Jonathan are now the ones forced to implement the same policy.
Sanusi made the remark while speaking at the Oxford Global Think Tank Leadership Conference on Tuesday.
According to the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, there is a sense of “poetic justice” in how history has unfolded.
“We talk about these things because it’s important; there is a kind of poetic justice that it is actually the people who led the Occupy Nigeria movement who ended up inheriting the problem and having to do it,” he said.
Sanusi further explained that Jonathan’s government at the time only partially removed subsidy due to security concerns linked to the Boko Haram insurgency.
“The only reason the government compromised at that time and did 50 per cent to 100 per cent was Boko Haram,” he noted.
“There were thousands of Nigerians on the streets in Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, and other cities. There was a fear that one day, one of these suicide bombers would go to these Nigerians and detonate bombs. You would have 200 corpses, and it would no longer be about subsidy,” he added.
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