Group lauds President’s reforms, flays past administrations

Muslim Ummah of South West Nigeria (MUSWEN) has exonerated the current administration from the pervasive hardship in the country, noting that the development is a cumulative effect of poor policies over the years.

In a statement by its president, Rasaki Oladejo, the group submitted that the lack of political will did not allow past administrations to end the fuel subsidy regime, thus inflicting untold damage to the country’s economic health.

The organisation added that Nigeria was dancing precariously on the edge of a cliff, pointing out that it only required a purposeful leader to take bold economic and political decisions to pull it back.

Oladejo submitted: “For instance, everybody knows that the country can no longer sustain the regime of fuel subsidy and all past administrations recognised this truism. So, what is to be done in this situation? Discontinue with the damn albatross of subsidy of course!

“Although we also recognise the fact that some of the pains are the collateral consequence of some of the remedial actions taken by Tinubu’s administration to correct the mistakes of past administrations, we believe that the actions are categorical necessities as the country could no longer run on some of the pretentious policies of the past. These previous policy regimes only gave a semblance of false, even temporary relief. They have all along been a veil on a disaster waiting to happen.”