Atiku’s camp fires back at Fayemi over subsidy, Muslim-Muslim ticket remark

“My take on that is that Atiku’s proposal of subsidy is politically equivalent to our own Muslim-Muslim ticket in 2023. It’s a political strategy. It’s not an economic construct,” Fayemi said.

Reacting, Atiku’s camp rejected the comparison, stressing that the critical issue was not whether Atiku’s proposal had political implications but whether the policy was economically viable.

According to Ibe, Atiku was not advocating a return to the former subsidy regime, which he said was characterised by opacity, questionable import claims and alleged corruption.

He added that Atiku’s proposal is based on a production-anchored subsidy model designed around domestic production and refining.