Through a series of tweets on his official handle, @fkeyamo, Keyamo discredited the notion propagated by some press outlets that Tinubu’s government had removed subsidy. He clarified that President Tinubu had merely acknowledged the absence of subsidy in the 2023 Appropriation Act and the Petroleum Industry Act in his inaugural speech.
In challenging advocates of subsidy, Festus Keyamo raised questions regarding the justification for reintroducing something that the law had already taken away. He urged proponents of subsidy to convince the Nigerian people why President Tinubu should engage in present illegality by reinstating a practice that consumed a substantial amount of the nation’s scarce resources, totaling $10 billion in 2022 alone.
