The Aide to President Bola Tinubu on Media, Bayo Onanuga, has slammed Nigerians for always putting all blames on Tinubu as the cause of Nigeria’s problem. The aide stated that Nigeria’s have forgotten how Nigeria was before Tinubu resumed office describing Nigerians as people with short memories.

Onanuga stated this during an interview on Arise TV on Friday stating that, before Tinubu’s election which was months away, fuel scarcity was common in 2023 where Nigerians had to form long queues and struggle to get fuel after NNPC had reduced imports because the federal government owed it over ₦4 trillion in unpaid subsidy claims.

“Let me start by saying that many of us in this country, many Nigerians, we sometimes exhibit the problem of lack of memory. We have very short memory.

“We forget where we started from and we just start blaming President Tinubu for all the problems that Nigeria is going through,” he stated.

Citing the scarcity of fuel in 2023 before Tinubu resumed office, Onanuga added;

“I remember, for instance, in May 2023 when Tinubu took over the government, there was fuel shortage in this country.

“People forgot that all through the election of that year, there was fuel shortage. So when the President announced on day one, the day was sworn in and said he was removing fuel subsidy.

“The immediate reaction was called by NNPC, which has been the major supplier of fuel, was to increase the pump price. Because as at that time, NNPC was no more willing to import fuel.

“NNPC was saying the federal government was owing it over 4 trillion Naira and it was also owing its suppliers abroad. So what the federal government did, what President Tinubu did, was to bring some life into NNPC to resume importing fuel so that fuel can be available.”

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