Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has said that those who opposed the fuel subsidy removal under former President Goodluck Jonathan are now the ones compelled to implement it.
Sanusi made the remark at the Oxford Global Think Tank Leadership Conference on Tuesday.
“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.
Explaining why the Jonathan administration later compromised on the policy, the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria said the decision was driven by security concerns at the height of 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 explained.
“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, and you would have 200 corpses; it would no longer be about subsidy,” he added.
