Former Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi, has cautioned Nigerians against voting for candidates who promise to make everything easy once elected in the 2023 general election.
He said this while speaking at the 7th edition of the Kaduna Economic and Investment Summit in Kaduna on Saturday.
Sanusi said with the current state of the economy, “any candidate who makes such a promise is a liar.”
According to him, politicians must prepare the minds of Nigerians for tough decisions ahead of next year’s polls.
“Anybody who tells you that it is going to be easy, please don’t vote for him. It is either he is lying to you or he doesn’t know what job he is going to get.
“You cannot with this level of debt service, with this level of collapse in revenue, with this level of poverty, you cannot take corrective decisions. Tariffs on the electricity sector will have to be corrected. Tariffs in the oil sector have to be corrected,” he said.
The former CBN Governor further pointed out that before the corrections are made, “we have to deal with the opportunities for rent-seeking. You have to close off the inflated numbers, the false numbers.”
He added that President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor must probe petrol subsidy payments, saying: “They must give names of the ships that came and we must verify if those ships were in Nigeria on that date.
“You must bring evidence. That is what the law says. There must be proof before you pay the subsidy.”
