Youth Party frowns at FG’s removal of fuel subsidy without social safety net

Even though it supports the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN), led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Youth Party (YP), on Sunday, said it is opposed to its implementation without any form of social safety net to cushion the impact and protect the poor.

In a statement made public by the political party, it insisted that Nigeria cannot justify spending less than a trillion on education and health respectively last year, but over four trillion on fuel subsidies.

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