A Chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Tony Okocha, has called for the overhaul of the nation’s refineries as part of plans to revive the country’s ailing economy.
    
Okocha said a swift refurbishing of the refineries and funding of the power sector would create jobs and provide basic infrastructural needs of the country.
   
Okocha, who served as the Chairman, Tinubu Presidential Campaign Rally in Rivers State, at the weekend, maintained that the move would stop enriching the few mindless people in the country. He described the removal of the fuel subsidy by President Ahmed Tinubu as apt, saying it was like a hernia eating deep into the human body and the doctor’s intervention via surgical operation brings excruciating pain to the patient.
   
Okocha, therefore, urged Nigerians to endure the pains, which according to him will last for a few months to enable them to enjoy the benefits of the decision. 
   
He said: “Overtime, fuel subsidy has been identified as an indispensable conduit pipe and albatross to our developments in infrastructure and job creation in Nigeria. Worse still, is that the country borrows money from international lending facilities, with stringent conditions and terms, all to fund fuel subsidies. How do we recoup the money to be able to pay back our creditors? So, fuel subsidy is the necessary evil that must be yanked off forthwith, for any government wishing to succeed, to operate well.”
   
“The President has a vision, irrespective of the cankerworms of religion and ethnicity, which some are beginning to bring to the front burner of discourses in recent debates.     
   
“He (Tinubu) will be able to assemble the egg-heads to help navigate through the central vision to make Nigeria better.”He said as a Chieftain of APC, he does not expect half-measures nor blame game with the President as he (Tinubu) has assured Nigerians of tackling the nation’s woes as he did in Lagos, when he served as Governor.