The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has condemned the expensive cost of fuel and gas, demanding that pending when the nation’s four refineries would begin local production, the President, Muhammadu Buhari must halt any plan to remove fuel subsidy.
The group made the call in a statement on Wednesday by OPC President, Otunba Wasiu Afolabi, popularly called Askari.
Askari warned that scrapping fuel subsidies without locally-produced fuel would further escalate inflation, endanger industries and increase the hardship Nigerians already suffered.
OPC also demanded that the government must equally tame the galloping prices of cooking gas, domestic kerosene and aviation fuel.
Lamenting that the price of diesel has also skyrocketed from N190 to N810, Afolabi said this had a negative effect on industries and transportation with attendant high cost of goods and services.
OPC equally faulted the high price of aviation fuel, saying the situation had increased the cost of flight tickets and made travelling by air expensive, unattractive and nightmarish.
