ATIKU’S SUBSIDY PLEDGE AGAINST TINUBU’S REFORMS AND THE SPECTRE OF REVERSAL |By Aderogba Adebayo Taofik, mni
The pledge by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to “return fuel subsidy if elected in 2027” represents a direct challenge to the subsidy removal and market deregulation executed by the Tinubu administration from May 2023. Politics, at its most elemental, is the contest of competing futures. When a former Vice President and perennial presidential contender…