Subsidy: Tinubu Is Not Implementing Your Blueprint, Nya-Etok Tells Atiku

Author: Omeiza AjayiPublished on: October 22, 2026Country: Nigeria
PoliticsBusiness & Economy
Subsidy: Tinubu Is Not Implementing Your Blueprint, Nya-Etok Tells Atiku

Ezekiel Nya-Etok, an APC chieftain and executive director of estate services at the Federal Housing Authority, says Bola Tinubu is not implementing the fuel-subsidy blueprint proposed by Atiku Abubakar. He said the president’s measures came from a meeting held more than a year ago and that Atiku cannot claim exclusive authorship of the ideas. Nya-Etok also urged Tinubu not to give state governors all the proceeds from subsidy removal, proposing that 70% go to states while 30% is kept in a joint account for specific priorities.

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