The Managing director of Pace Service Affairs, Mr. Ogundiran Afolabi has expressed his surprise that the Federal Government was dishing out policies that is adding to the challenges facing Nigerians everyday.
FTNEWS recalls that the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) had on Wednesday directed its members in the South-West States to sell Petrol at N162 per litre.
He said the government was capable of finding a better solution that would not exert more hardship on the citizenry.
Mr. Afolabi added that this new inflation may cause many businesses to halt operation and forced their ways into extinction when they could not meet up with their financial demand, saying consequently, more Nigerians will loss their jobs.
"How should we describe leaders of Nigerian who promised to cater for the welfare of their compatriots when they are seeking for power" Mr. Afolabi lamented.
"It is high time for President Muhammadu Buhari to use his power to rescue the masses from this unwarranted hike of electricity tariff and petrol pump price " he said.
"Nigeria’s refineries must be rejuvenated as promised 2015 and 2019 if truly President Muhammadu Buhari wants a better life for the citizens with peoples oriented polices" he added.
An artisan, Madam Isola Deborah, who owns a hairdressing saloon in her own reaction said " how would a sincere leader who wants an enviable living standard for his subject unleash hardship upon them at this period of COVID-19 when everyone is just struggling to return to business.
"I can never support President Buhari in this new development because it is a bad policy at the wrong time" she said.
However, Deborah urged President Muhammadu Buhari and his vice, Professor Yemi Osinbajo to use their office in rescuing Nigerians from what she described as looming hardship.
An inter-state bus driver, Mr. Amusan Akinlade in his own reaction said the new hike was a callus decisions by those who designed it to suffer Nigerians.
Mr. Akinlade questioned "how would a poor driver like me meet up with my expected responsibility as bread winner of the family with five children and two wives at the face of this sudden inflations?
"President Muhammadu Buhari must be told that he is governing over 200 million human beings not animals" he said.
"He was given the power by overwhelming Nigerians as president to make life meaningful not miserable" Mr Akinlade urged President Buhari to listen to the plight of the masses.