Rt. Hon. Adeyemi Sabit Ikuforiji, former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, said Nigerians protested against subsidy removal in 2012 because the then president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan was surrounded with corrupt aides. He disclosed this in an interview with Daily Independence Correspondence.
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But why do you think Nigerians protested when former president, Goodluck Jonathan attempted the removal in 2012?
When you ask the masses to bear the pain of adjustments, but those who are supposed to lead by example are busy amassing wealth at an ungodly rate, siphoning the wealth of the nation into private pockets, you cannot expect the people you are leading to be happy. President Jonathan may have carried out little changes here and there, but it is common knowledge that the people who surrounded him were busy milking the nation dry. That was the trouble then, which made Nigerians rise in protest in 2012.
