Arewa Youths Demand Reversal Of Petrol Pump Price, Threaten Mass Protest

A coalition of Northern Youth Organizations has condemned the increase in the pump price of petrol to N143 per litre.

The group is demanding for the immediate reversal of the new pump price or there will be a mass protest.

National President of Northern Youth Council, Isah Abubakar and the Chairman Nigeria Citizen Action Group, Mohammed Danlamin while addressing a joint news conference in Kaduna said, “increasing pump price of petrol at a time when nations are doing more to aide her citizens out of the post-COVID-19 pandemic is highly insensitive, callous and ridiculous”.

“Most sensitive governments around the world are doing everything possible to ensure the hardship occasioned by the pandemic is reduced to it’s bearest minimum”, he said.

According to the northern youths, the major stakeholders in government are not happy with the APC federal government led by President Muhammadu Buhari.

The administration has become insensitive to the plight of the common man in Nigeria.

Abubakar queried the rationale behind the hike in the price of oil at this time of squalor by many Nigerians who has slipped into the poverty line.

He urged the managers of the economy and the president’s advisers’ to resign voluntarily because their action had the potential of inciting Nigerians against the government.

The group, however, threatens to mobilize Nigerians for a nationwide protest on Tuesday, July 14th, If the Federal government fails to reverse the pump price of petrol.