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Yes, it is taking a long time and it should take because when you are outside the government, you don't know the depth of the issues that confront you.

— Peter Ndalikali Jiya

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Interview response to the question 'You are saying that the President had courage to remove the fuel subsidy, but it is taking him a long time to come up with palliatives to cushion the effects of that hard decision. What is your take on that?'

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It will not get down as it ought to because there is always a manipulative tendency on the part of the privileged elite to satisfy themselves before the generality of the people.

We need that particularly for the younger generation in specific fields. Even in the United States, government backs up business people; gives them concessions for them to come up.

Yes, he was a governor but a governor of a state, with a massive population but with little land mass. But now, he is the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; a massive country.

You will discover that you cannot drink from that river immediately. But give it a few days, it will clear and become a very good source of water supply that will refresh, renew and strengthen people.

We have to look back at the time General Muhammadu Buhari and Tunde Idiagbon were in power. They took a position and the whole country queued behind them.

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