{"id":221813,"date":"2024-09-29T10:42:11","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T10:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/09\/29\/whoever-says-tinubu-suspended-fuel-subsidy-is-joking-dogara\/"},"modified":"2024-09-29T10:42:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T10:42:11","slug":"whoever-says-tinubu-suspended-fuel-subsidy-is-joking-dogara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/09\/29\/whoever-says-tinubu-suspended-fuel-subsidy-is-joking-dogara\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoever Says Tinubu Suspended Fuel Subsidy Is Joking \u2013 Dogara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-883855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1720094318_Yakubu-Dogara.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"344\"  \/><br \/>Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has weighed in on the controversial fuel subsidy removal.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu simply made the announcement but is not responsible for the removal<\/p>\n<p>Dogara, speaking on Channels Television at the weekend, said there was no provision for fuel subsidy in the budget before Tinubu made the announcement.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The former speaker opined that fuel subsidy removal was a good move for Nigeria despite the effect.<\/p>\n<p>His words, \u201cIn this case, there was no provision for it, and anybody who told you Tinubu suspended it was just joking because how did he suspend payment that was not budgeted for in the first instance?<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no provision for subsidy in that budget and I am not aware of any amendment that took place to accommodate the payment of subsidy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truth is that he (Tinubu) was not the one who removed the subsidy. But he did make that pronouncement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no provision for it in the budget and you know the budget is backed by the Constitution. If there\u2019s no provision for it in the budget, then how do you pay for it?\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-advadstrackid=\"941128\" data-advadstrackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-771884870\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/FirstBank-Giant-Strides300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has weighed in on the controversial fuel subsidy removal. According to him, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu simply made the announcement but is not responsible for the removal Dogara, speaking on Channels Television at the weekend, said there was no provision for fuel subsidy in the budget [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Whoever Says Tinubu Suspended Fuel Subsidy Is Joking \u2013 Dogara - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/09\/29\/whoever-says-tinubu-suspended-fuel-subsidy-is-joking-dogara\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Whoever Says Tinubu Suspended Fuel Subsidy Is Joking \u2013 Dogara - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has weighed in on the controversial fuel subsidy removal. 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