Despite repeated claims by the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu led Federal Government that fuel subsidy is gone, an insider, the immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has disclosed that the Federal Government was now paying more for fuel subsidy, even than before.
El-Rufai dropped this bombshell while speaking with newsmen after delivering the lead paper at a capacity-building workshop on Enhancing Skills of Government Officials in Policy Implementation and Productive Human Resource Management for political appointees in Maiduguri on Monday.
Hear him; “The federal government is now subsidizing fuel; many people don’t know this.”
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Applauding the policy, El-Rufai added, “It is a right policy. I have always supported the withdrawal of oil subsidies; but in the course of implementing the policy, the government realised that subsidy has to be back; right now, the government is paying a lot of money for subsidy, even more than before.
“You start implementing a policy because you are absolutely sure it is the right policy, but in the course of implementation, you come across bottlenecks, and you modify.
“The keyword in leadership, in my view, is pragmatism. You should be pragmatic. So when you make a policy, you start implementing it, and it doesn’t seem to work well. You should have the humility to stand back and say this is not working, and you modify it.”
Meanwhile, the former Kaduna governor also took a swipe at the critics of President Bola Tinubu’s administration over leadership deficit, accusing them of hasty judgment.
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“It is too early to judge the present administration.
“It (the Tinubu administration) has been there just for nine months now,” he observed, adding, “Leadership is a work in progress.”
Stressing further, the former Kaduna governor maintained, “Leadership is a continuous thing, and you cannot judge someone who has four years in just nine months.”
He, however, charged Nigerians to pray for their leaders for God’s guidance.
