On Tuesday, October 25, 2022, Keyamo spoke with Arise TV about the legacy the Buhari administration will leave after 2023.
He stated that the president wishes to implement some measures to mitigate the impact of subsidy removal on Nigerians.
He said, “This (subsidy removal issue) is about the empathy of President Buhari. Because he feels empathic to the Nigerian people. He needs to put some measures in place. The president stated it clearly. By June next year, they will begin to phase out subsidy.
“From Obasanjo to Yaradua to Jonathan, they had been saying the same about subsidy. The trust deficit is the problem. Why did people oppose Jonathan that time? It was because people saw the flamboyant lives that people were living then. The oil minister and all that.”
The minister also stated that Buhari’s ministers, including himself, do not have an official vehicle because the president has been fiscally conservative in his economic policies.
“I don’t have an official car for the past four years. So, we live a spartan life. We don’t live that kind of ostentatious life that the other government lived. So, there’s some kind of trust,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and his ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) counterpart, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, have both promised to eliminate fuel subsidies if elected.
