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Former South-South Leader and Federal Commissioner for Information Chief Edwin Clark has urged President Bola Tinubu to promptly declare a food emergency, claiming that Nigerians are hungry and angry.

When the president of Host Communities of Nigeria Producing Oil and Gas (HOSTCOM), High Chief Benjamin Tamaranebi, sent a group of his team to pay him a courtesy visit on Friday, Clark made the call from his Asokoro house in Abuja.

The elder statesman commented on the recent protests by Nigerians, stating that the government cannot stop the people from protesting and that it is their right to do so. He also mentioned that President Tinubu organised a protest against the former President Goodluck Jonathan that lasted for several weeks after he removed oil subsidy.

The head of PANDEF, the Pan Niger Delta Forum, asserts that Tinubu is not to blame for the elimination of the fuel subsidy because the funding for it expired in June 2023.

Clark added that the withdrawal of fuel subsidy was hurting Nigerians and encouraged the government to find realistic ways to reduce poverty.

“Oil subsidy is a big problem in Nigeria. Oil subsidy is not confined to Nigeria alone, but everything in Nigeria does not work because of poor management and poor leadership. True, we all realize later that the oil subsidy was a scam.

“That was why in 2012, during the administration of Jonathan, in January 2012, his government removed the oil subsidy.

“During the 2023 presidential campaign, all the major parties talked about removal of subsidies. But in 2020 and 2021, President Buhari, as well as the Minister of Finance, Ahmed, and the Minister of State Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, announced to Nigerians that there was no longer subsidy in Nigeria,” the elder statesman said.

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