2027: ‘I won’t restore petrol subsidy,’ says YPP candidate Agada

Peter Agada, the Young Progressives Party’s candidate in Nigeria’s 2027 presidential election, ruled out restoring the petrol subsidy removed by Bola Tinubu in 2023. In an interview on Channels Television, he said Nigeria’s economic difficulties also stem from the management of oil revenues and the costs of producing crude. Agada said he would scrutinise the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) system to reduce waste and revenue losses, and identified inefficient public spending as a particularly pressing concern.