The 2023 presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Adewole Adebayo, has criticized the federal government for introducing a 15% import duty on refined petroleum products.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday, Adebayo described the decision as unfair to Nigerians and accused President Bola Tinubu of focusing too much on taxes instead of citizens’ welfare.
According to him, “President Tinubu is a smart tax collector. He wants to tax everything, soon it’ll even be the air we breathe. Just give him time; he’ll get there.”
Adebayo said the new tax goes against the values Tinubu once stood for.
“This is not the Tinubu we used to know in the days of Hope 93. He’s now more interested in money than people’s wellbeing. To him, citizens are customers. If you have twins, he might even come up with a ‘multiple birth tax,’” he said.
He warned that the burden of the 15% duty would eventually fall on ordinary Nigerians.
“If you place a 15% tax on imported petrol, who pays for it? The people buying fuel at the filling stations,” Adebayo added.
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