Nigeria: Accept People's Verdict, Jonathan Told

16 January 2012

A member of the House of Representatives from Ekiti State, Hon. Bimbo Daramola, has charged President Goodluck Jonathan to go outside the barriers of party and ethnicity to be able to accept the common verdict of the people for the reversal of removal of fuel subsidy.

Daramola, a member of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), representing Ikole and Oye Local Government Areas of Ekiti North Federal Constituency at the lower chamber of the House stated this during an interaction with journalists at the weekend, saying those advising the president to see calls for reversal of pump price of petrol as being ethnically motivated are his own very enemies and those of the people.

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