No Power, Petrol Price Hikes Till After Elections - Politics -
conomists: No party’ll sustain burden Investors react By Adeola Yusuf Nigerians should be ready for hike in power and petrol prices immediately after the 2019 general elections, economists and investors in the power and petroleum sectors have warned. In a chat with New Telegraph in Lagos, they insisted that the expedient hike in prices of electric power and Premium Motor Spirit (PMS); two utility products in Nigeria, will wait till immediately after the general elections. Speaking with this newspaper last night, CEO of Financial Derivatives, Mr. Bismarck Rewane, a frontline economist, said nothing would happen on both power tariff and petrol price until after the election. “Nothing will happen until the government gets another four-year mandate. If they do now, they will lose and that will not be a wise decision,” he said. Similarly, Managing Director, Cowry Asset Management, Mr. Johnson Chukwu and investors in the 11 distribution companies, said that no party or indivi