Okpebholo should resign over UK fuel price comparison – APM

The Allied Peoples Movement (APM) has called connected Edo State Governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo, to resign implicit his examination of petrol prices successful Nigeria and the United Kingdom.

The enactment said the governor’s examination failed to instrumentality into relationship the wide quality successful income and purchasing powerfulness betwixt Nigerians and radical surviving successful the UK.

In a connection by its National Publicity Secretary, Abubakar Yusuf, the APM besides criticised the summation successful petrol prices to much than N1,500 per litre, saying Nigerians were expecting a simplification successful the outgo of fuel.

Yusuf said the APM condemned the crisp emergence successful petrol prices to much than N1,500 per litre, stressing that Nigerians were expecting the terms to travel down.

“It is unfair to comparison petrol prices successful Nigeria with those successful the UK without taking into relationship the quality successful workers’ incomes. Nigeria’s N70,000 minimum wage is acold beneath what workers gain connected mean successful the UK,” the enactment said.

The APM utilized teachers to exemplify the difference, saying Nigerian teachers gain astir N70,000 oregon less, portion a teacher successful the UK starts with a monthly wage of astir £2,839.

The enactment besides argued that the 2 countries hav...