They say they may remain in PDP or any new party that may emerge to challenge the APC led government.
And whatever damage the PDP did to Nigeria’s economy no longer mattered to them. They maintain that what matters to them is how effective government is in currently handling problems.
Ahead of the 2019 general elections therefore, most residents of Enugu State are girding their loins to ensure that President Muhammad Buhari,of the All Progressives Congress, APC, led Government does not return to power. They say that if their votes would only matter, the present government will face change. The intractable hike in Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, price which sold at N220 per liter during and after the Easter celebration is not acceptable to them.
The residents who wore long faces as they spoke to Vanguard at some filing stations in the metropolis said,”a corrupt Peoples Democratic Party,PDP,government did not cause us the hardship we are facing now under APC Government”.
They recalled that the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources,Dr. Ibe Kachikwu had assured the nation of adequate supply of products during the celebration. It never happened and people spent the Easter on queues to buy fuel the same thing that happened to them at Christmas.
PMS, otherwise known as Fuel sold at N160 before the Easter celebration in Enugu State against the approved pump price of N86.50K.
In few filling stations where fuel sold at the approved pump price of N86.50K, motorists had to spend days to purchase regulated volumes while black marketers had a field day in connivance with operators to sell at suffocating prices of N500 per liter especially to night crawling motorist who ran out of fuel. The fuel scarcity is nationwide even as some people Enugu insist the problem could be a factor in the 2019 elections.
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