Written by Haroon M Salis Friday, 06 January 2012 President Goodluck Jonathan will today meet with governors to review reactions that trailed the recent removal of fuel subsidy, Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswam has said.
He said, “The President will be meeting with us tomorrow (today) for us to further look at how states can also key in some of the palliative measures which the President has put forward because a lot of states for the first time will be getting subsidy. “The savings from this, at least Benue will be getting N7.6 billion. It is a drop in the ocean but it will make a difference. If I decide that N7.6 billion is going to build classrooms, I can achieve that.”
He said the benefits of subsidy would now reach the common man, who has never benefited from it. He said the government took the decision in the interest of Nigerians so that the country can move forward.
“If we just want to be a consuming nation, then we don’t have a future. Over the years, that is what we have been doing. So, we need to stand up as a country together and sacrifice so that we can guarantee the future of this country,” he said.
He said governors supported the subsidy removal because they needed more money to provide basic infrastructures which were lacking in their states.
“It is either that we continue to practise the system or go to a lesser expensive system of government. But as far as we continue with the presidential system of government, those incidental expenses must be there. You cannot run away from them.”
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