former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, said the Federal Government and organised labour/civil society leaders had a responsibility to show flexibility rather than adopting rigid postures to find a mutually agreeable settlement on the issue of fuel subsidy.

The Presidency was said to have invited the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Aminu Tambuwal to Saturday meeting between the Federal Government and labour leaders in order to get the Speaker to prevail on labour to accept the Federal Government position on the fuel subsidy.

The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, yesterday, said it was concerned that, with what may be the tacit support of people in the highest echelon of power, the ongoing fuel subsidy issue was increasingly being turned to a sectional matter.

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The Federal Government has reached a decision on how to move forward in a dispute over fuel prices that has caused a week-long strike which has shut down the country, the mediator in the crisis said