Nigerian actor and comedian Oluwaseyitan Aletile, popularly known as Seyi Law, has commended President Bola Tinubu for the removal of the fuel subsidy.
Despite the hardships it has caused for many, Seyi Law believes that the move is ultimately beneficial for Nigerians.
He emphasized that the fuel subsidy should have been eliminated much earlier, noting that if it had been removed in 2012 during Goodluck Jonathan’s presidency when the former opposition party, led by Tinubu, protested against it. Nigerians would have already been free from that burden.
“Fuel subsidy should have been long gone. If it had gone in 2012, we would have gone through the pain process and by now we would have been healing,” he said. “In 2012, I was the only celebrity that went on stage to kick against the anti-fuel subsidy movement. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala came out to say that the nation could not afford to pay salaries. We were borrowing to pay salaries.”
