If fuel subsidy is brought back, it will aggravate poverty – NOA DG, Lanre Issa-Onilu

The Director-General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Lanre Issa-Onilu, has urged Nigerians to develop survival strategies in response to the economic impact of the petrol subsidy removal by President Bola Tinubu’s administration.

Issa-Onilu, who previously served as the spokesman for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), stressed that reinstating the petrol subsidy, as demanded by the #EndBadGovernance protesters over the past week, would exacerbate poverty rather than reduce it.

According to him; “Anybody who is making a demand that subsidy removal should be brought back is making an emotional demand, not an economic demand because you have to also prove that if it is brought back, it will solve the issue of poverty; it will not, it will aggravate it,”