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The immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has said the Federal Government of President Bola Tinubu now pays more for fuel subsidy than ever before.
El-Rufai disclosed this while speaking with newsmen after delivering the lead paper at a capacity-building workshop on Enhancing Skills of Government Officials in Policy Implementation and Productive Human Resource Management for political appointees in Maiduguri on Monday.
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He said, “The federal government is now subsidizing fuel; many people don’t know this.”
Applauding the policy, El-Rufai added, “It is a right policy. I have always supported the withdrawal of oil subsidy; but in the course of implementing the policy, the government realised that subsidy has to be back; right now, government is paying a lot of money for subsidy, even more than before.
“You start implementing a policy because you are absolutely sure it is the right policy, but in the course of implementation, you come across bottlenecks, and you modify.
“The keyword in leadership, in my view, is pragmatism. You should be pragmatic. So when you make a policy, you start implementing it, and it doesn’t seem to work well. You should have the humility to stand back and say this is not working, and you modify it.”
Meanwhile, the former Kaduna governor also took a swipe at the critics of President Bola Tinubu’s administration over leadership deficit, accusing them of hasty judgment.
“It is too early to judge the present administration.
Tinubu’s government had, on its first day in office, May 29, 2023, yanked off the fuel subsidy, announcing; “Fuel subsidy is gone,” and ever since then, the economy has been in turmoil./PLEASE SHARE
