Adamu Salihu, a native of Kano state, has claimed that the difficulties that Nigerians are currently experiencing as a result of the increase in the price of gasoline at the pump are not the reasons that he and his family members made a special effort to support the Tinubu-led administration.
Fuel prices rose from N195 per litre to N530 after President Tinubu declared the end of subsidies in his inaugural speech on May 29. On Tuesday, July 18, early in the morning, they reached N617 in Abuja and N620 in Kano.
Salihu, who claims to be from the State’s Bichi LGA, responded to the new event by saying he might be compelled to turn to crime. He remarked in a DailyTrust interview.
“Honestly this new price has hit us very hard. This is not what we voted for. My children and I voted the current government in power. What we are being served is contrary to what we asked for. I am a Nigerian, I deserve to be treated right. I am no longer a youth, I have Children and they also go out and vote. Very soon if there is no change, I will ask them to stop voting because they are no longer going to school and have started hawking selling ‘Awara’.
I dropped them out of school and they are now selling ‘Awara’. How can they be denied education and start hawking? I have been in politics since the time of NRC and SDP. If things continue to go like this, we can retaliate. if our lawmakers and representatives will not do anything about it. We can take the law into our hands despite being law abiding citizens.
All these hardship we are facing is as a result of hike in fuel price, if not, we won’t be suffering like this. We don’t have good representation.”