The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is calling on the Federal Government to review the hike in electricity tariff and other economic reforms.
A review of tariff for Band A customers – those who enjoy at least 20 hours of power supply – and the removal of fuel subsidy among other reforms have triggered a backlash from some Nigerians with the PDP echoing similar sentiments.
“NEC also demands that President Tinubu should immediately rejig his Economic Team to bring in persons of proven integrity and competence without bias and vested interest to assist in repositioning the economy,” the PDP said in a Thursday statement by its spokesperson Debo Ologunagba after the party’s national executive council meeting.
“NEC further demands that the Federal Government should review all policies and programmes which are stifling the economy with suffocating effects on the lives of citizens; including the increase in the price of fuel without cushioning measures, hike in electricity tariff, increased taxation and implementation of adverse fiscal policies.”
With the country facing insecurity in different dimensions, the PDP wants President Tinubu to “urgently convene a special National Security Council meeting to proffer a holistic solution and measures to curb the disturbing insecurity with its attendant negative consequences on our national life”.
