{"id":919753,"date":"2022-01-26T14:35:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T14:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/26\/fg-didnt-suspend-fuel-subsidy-removal-for-2023-elections-says-femi-adesina\/"},"modified":"2022-01-26T14:35:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T14:35:34","slug":"fg-didnt-suspend-fuel-subsidy-removal-for-2023-elections-says-femi-adesina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/26\/fg-didnt-suspend-fuel-subsidy-removal-for-2023-elections-says-femi-adesina\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Didn\u2019t Suspend Fuel Subsidy Removal For 2023 Elections, Says Femi Adesina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_834730\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-834730\" style=\"width: 583px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-834730 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Femi-Adesina.png\" alt=\"FG Didn\u2019t Suspend Fuel Subsidy Removal For 2023 Elections, Says Femi Adesina\" width=\"583\" height=\"289\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-834730\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adesina<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Federal Government did not suspend the removal of fuel subsidy because of the 2023 elections, according to Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Adesina said this during an appearance on Channels Television\u2019s Sunrise Daily program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a valid thing [to do],\u201d he said of the government\u2019s suspension of the removal, adding, \u201cbut is this done because of elections next year? No.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0NLC Suspends Planned Protest Against Petrol Subsidy Removal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is done because as the minister (of finance) stated, the timing is not auspicious, inflation is still high. In the past eight months, we saw inflation reducing but the last month, it went up again; further consultations need to happen with all the stakeholders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adesina also stated that the intention of the Federal Government to extend the removal of fuel subsidy by 18 months was not to set a booby-trap for the next president.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adesina The Federal Government did not suspend the removal of fuel subsidy because of the 2023 elections, according to Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity. On Wednesday, Adesina said this during an appearance on Channels Television\u2019s Sunrise Daily program. \u201cIt is a valid thing [to do],\u201d he said of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}