The immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, has claimed that the Federal Government now pays more for fuel subsidy.
He addressed newsmen after delivering the lead paper at a capacity-building workshop on “Enhancing Skills of Government Officials in Policy Implementation and Productive Human Resource Management” for political appointees in Maiduguri, yesterday.
His words: “The Federal Government is now subsidising fuel; many people don’t know this.”
Applauding the move, el-Rufai added: “It is a right policy. I have always supported the withdrawal of oil subsidy; but in the course of implementing the policy, the government realised that subsidy has to be back; right now, the government is paying a lot of money for subsidy, even more than before.
“You start implementing a policy because you are sure it is the right policy, but in the course of implementation, you come across bottlenecks, and you modify.
“The key word in leadership, in my view, is pragmatism. You should be pragmatic. So, when you make a policy, you start implementing it, and it doesn’t seem to work well, you should have the humility to stand back and say this is not working, and you modify it.”
He took a swipe at critics of President Bola Tinubu’s administration over leadership deficit, accusing them of hasty judgment.
