The Presidential Candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, accused the federal government of using the lingering fuel scarcity and recently-introduced naira notes and cash handling policies of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to scuttle his chances of winning the 2023 presidential election.
The former Lagos Governor, however, vowed that Nigerians would defy the fuel scarcity and trek to cast their votes.
Tinubu spoke in Abeokuta, Ogun State, during the APC presidential campaign.
He, however, vowed that Nigerians would defy fuel scarcity and trek to cast their votes.
His words, “Even if they said there is no fuel, we will trek to vote. They have a lot of mischief; they could say there is no fuel. They have been scheming to create fuel crisis, but forget about it.
“Relax, I, Asiwaju, have told you that the issue of fuel supply will be permanently addressed. Whoever wants to eat the honey embedded in a mountain won’t worry about the axe. Is that not so? And if you want to eat palm kernel, you would bring stone and use it to break it, then the kernel will come out. It’s not easy to…
“Let them increase the price of fuel, only them know where they have hoarded fuel, they hoarded money, they hoarded naira; we will go and vote and we will win. Even if they changed the ink on Naira notes. Whatever their plans, it will come to nought. We are going to win. Those in the PDP will lose (won ma lule).
“I am homeboy, I have come here, you will not be put to shame, we will take over the government from them, the traitors who wanted to contest with us. They had no experience.
“The great Nigerian youths, the great Nigerian students, the confident Nigerian youths. This is a revolution. This election is a revolution. They are plotting, but they will fail. They said fuel price will increase and reach N200 per litre. Go and relax. They don’t want this election to be held, they want to scuttle it. Will you allow them?”
Tinubu was expressing his disapproval over the fuel crisis that has seen long queues across the country, with citizens spending productive hours at filling stations while also paying more to get the crucial commodity.
