Prince Adewole Adebayo, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) presidential candidate in the February 25 presidential election, has warned Nigerians that the government will make more difficult decisions in the future.
He made the statement in response to Nigerians lamenting over the hardship brought upon them by the removal of fuel subsidy.
According to him, Nigerians should not cry because there are more difficult decisions that the government will have to make in the coming days.
He argued that President Bola Tinubu was fulfilling one of his campaign promises which Nigerians were aware of before they voted him into power.
His words:
“Tinubu told Nigerians during his campaigns that he would remove fuel subsidies if voted as president, and Nigerians went ahead to vote for him.
“That’s democracy for you, and that is why you have to be 18 years old before you can go and vote. It’s an adult decision.
“If you decide to take a particular road, whatever traffic you meet on the road is your choice, because you were given different roads, which you could have taken.
“It is too early to cry because there are more difficult decisions that the government would have to make. Having taken this part of free-market economic policies, there are many choices they have to make along the way.
“Not all those choices will make the people happy, but people should bear in mind it is a social contract they have signed with the government.”
He also stated that last week’s protest by the Nigerian Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress shouldn’t have been held because the subsidy removal was part of President Tinubu’s promises to Nigerians before the elections.
He stressed that the Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour Party made the same promise before the elections.
On Tinubu’s promise to labour unions that the Port Harcourt Refinery would begin operations by December this year, he said that was a mere aspiration because it would not happen.
He also stated that the Dangote refinery, which is expected to start operation in August or September, would also not be ready this year.
