Femi Fani-Kayode chides NLC and Peter Obi over planned strike.

Former minister of culture and tourism, Femi Fani-Kayode has raised alarm over the planned nationwide protest by the Nigeria Labour Congress.

Although, the subsidy was only provided for in the budget till July by the previous administration, the outright removal was announced by President Tinubu during his inaugural speech on the 29th of May.

The country's organised labour have scheduled Wednesday for a nationwide warning strike over the removal of petroleum subsidy by the President Tinubu's administration.

Femi Fani-Kayode who is a member of the ruling party has thrown aim at the NLC and the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi and has also questioned the move as insincerity and hypocrite of the Labour Party's "leadership".

In his opinion, the action of the NLC is wheeled by the aggrieved Peter Obi, and the NLC is only doing this according to his directives.

The tweet reads in full:

The leadership of the NLC did not threaten to go on strike when the sadistic monster called Emefiele introduced his horrendous, callous, wicked, malevolent, barbaric, vicious, self-seeking, politically-motivated, unconstitutional and illegal cash confiscation and money deprivation policy that resulted in the suffering, hunger, destruction, death, suicide, hardship, depression, frustration, madness and despair of millions of our people.

Instead they are threatening to go on strike over the implementation of a well-thought out and credible policy on oil subsidy which the Nigerian people endorsed by voting for a President who promised to remove it and which, though initially tough, will inevitably and eventually result in the restoration and ressurection of our economy and ensure that we have the necessary funds and resources for massive infrastructural development. 

Is this not strange and is it not a reflection of the insincerity, double standards and hypocrisy of the leadership of the Labour Congress?

Does it not prove the fact they are acting out a script and that they are nothing more than a pack of ravenous wolves, implacable adversaries, insidious subversives and opportunistic mercenaries who are in the hands and power of Peter Obi?

If Peter orders them to jump they will ask, "Bwana, how high?" 

Yet the truth is that whether the NLC likes it or not the oil subsidy MUST and WILL go.

That is the only way to save our country from the fiscal challenges, rot and deterioration that it has suffered over the last 15 years and put us back on the right track for national development.