According to him, Tinubu will formally inaugurate the APC PCC, appointed a few months ago, on Oct. 14 at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

“I feel heavily disappointed because I left a lot of things I should be doing to rush down here to pick up my PVC. I feel discouraged,” he said.

“If you clap a little bit more I may share this prize with Trump,” Pillay said in a video posted to X by the Secretary General of Amnesty International, which showed Pillay being applauded in Nuremberg after the announcement of the award.

He said Atiku would prioritise local refining through a targeted, budgeted production subsidy for fuel refined in Nigeria, alongside reforms in electricity, education, healthcare and agriculture. The proposed measures, he said, would ease production costs, improve access to essential services and create opportunities for young people and women.

Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Atiku Abubakar, has dismissed President Bola Tinubu’s 30-day petrol discount as an inadequate response to years of economic hardship, saying Nigerians would hold the administration accountable in the 2027 general election.