Ex-APC Spokesman Wants Nigeria Shut Down Over Fuel Price

Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, yesterday urged the leadership of the organised Labour in Nigeria to mobilise and shut down the country in reaction to the astronomical hike in fuel price and electricity tariff by the Federal Government.
In a statement issued in Abuja, he also called on the National Assembly to urgently reconvene and speak on behalf of Nigerians who elected them just like the 7th National Assembly did in 2012 when fuel was increased from N65.00 to N140.00 by the administration of ex-President, Goodluck Jonathan, in January 2012.
Frank strongly condemned the increase in the price of petrol from N148.50 to N151.56 per litre by the Pipeline Products Marketing Company (PPMC) and electricity tariff from N22.00 to N66.00 per kilowatt by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC).
He called on the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC), Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigerian (PENGASSAN), Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Nigerian Median Association (NMA), Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), to rise up and defend the weak, poor and helpless masses in the face of this massive and unbearable onslaught against their very being.
“The NLC has rejected the evil price increase through a statement, it is now time for the Ayuba Wabba leadership of the Union to match their words with action on the streets just like ex-NLC President, Abdulwaheed Omar, did in collaboration with the Change Nigeria Group (CNG) in 2012,” Frank said.
He said that the fuel price and electricity tariff increase are most untenable especially at a period when crude oil prices have plummeted internationally and while majority of Nigerians who are not metered are languishing under the yoke of estimated billing respectively.