The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to resign if he is incapable of bringing sanity to the country’s oil industry and is now contemplating removing fuel subsidy.
The national publicity secretary of CNPP, Osita Okechukwu, said in a statement made available yesterday to newsmen in Abuja, that the conference would use all legal means to ensure that the cabal benefitting from the fuel subsidy were prosecuted.
He said that what the President ought to do instead of embarking on subsidy removal was to wage war against the cabal who loot our oil resources, personalise NNPC and pauperise the citizenry.
The CNPP scribe gave the assurance that it would use legal means to resist the removal until the cabal that benefitted from the monumental corruption which made the subsidy to rise in 2006? from N261bn, 2007-N279billion, 2008-N648billion, 2009-N422billion, 2010-N622billion to 2011-N1.4trillion were prosecuted.
He said, “If President Jonathan lacks the political will to recover and restore sanity in the NNPC, then he should resign and save our democracy. Is it not shameful that we are importing refined fuel from Cote d’Ivoire?”