‘There Must Be Local Anesthesia Before Extricating A Painful Tooth, So Also With Removal Of Petrol Subsidy’ – Peter Obi
The Oasis Reporters
June 7, 2023
As Peter Obi attended his ongoing petition case at the Court of Appeal yesterday, Tuesday, June 6, 2023, judicial correspondents ambushed him at the entrance of the court and demanded that he should talk to them on the issue of the subsidy removal, which the government representatives were touting that he is in support of.
As I attended my ongoing petition case at the Court of Appeal today, Tuesday, June 6, 2023, judicial correspondents ambushed me at the entrance of the court and demanded that I should talk to them. pic.twitter.com/iYwRJ1ESD3
— Peter Obi (@PeterObi) June 6, 2023
Obi takes the narrative from here :
Reacting, I told them that I’ve actually been in support of the removal of subsidies right from the President Goodluck Jonathan era, when I was a member of the Economic Management team.
If you have followed me very well right from the time I was a member of Jonathan’s economic management team, I consistently maintained that subsidy should be removed because I see it as organized crime.
People were just stealing the resources of the country and I showed it empirically in my statistical analysis that we were not consuming the amount of fuel they claimed we consumed.
I also gave them the “tooth pain” removal analogy that if you approach a dentist to remove a painful tooth, he will apply a local anesthetic to numb the area around the tooth so you do not feel pain. It’s not the same thing as pulling the tooth forcefully, the pain you feel will be different. For me, I will go with the approach of the dentist, while supporting the removal of the tooth because I wouldn’t want to go through the pain of a forceful removal.
Recall that even when Jonathan’s government wanted to remove it they came up with various relieving policies like Sure-P and others.
