Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is currently presiding over the
National Economic Council NEC meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, where a
good number of state governors are in attendance.
Before the meeting kicked off, Osinbajo launched the Nigeria
COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus NG-CARES Program.
The program is being funded under the World Bank N750million
loan.
As at the time of filing this brief report, there are strong
indications that the meeting would deliberate on the contentious issue of fuel
subsidy.
It was reliably gathered that most of the state governors
who are members of NEC are not favourably disposed to the situation where
deductions are made from their federal allocations, which goes into subsidising
fuel products for the populace.
Osinbajo serves as chairman of the National Economic Council
while the 36 state governors are members, including the FCT Minister, Mohammed
Bello, the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed among other
key agencies of government.
Meanwhile, at the federal level, the government appears to
be at crossroads in taking concrete decisions on fuel subsidy removal owing to
economic constraints.
More details later…
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