President Bola Tinubu has said he has no regrets over the removal of the fuel subsidy, vowing that Nigeria will never go back to it as he likened any return to asking the biblical Moses to go back to Egypt.

Tinubu spoke on Monday evening at the forum tagged ‘Together till 2027: An Evening with Original City Boy’, organised by the City Boy Movement in conjunction with the Relax-Tinubu-Is-Fixing-Nigeria movement, both of which are geared towards his reelection at the 2027 polls.

Recalling the start of his administration, the President said he scrapped the subsidy on his first day in office.

“I came, and I removed the subsidy the first day,” he said, adding that Nigeria was heading for bankruptcy, with “nothing left to pay subsidy.”

The President threw jabs at the African Democratic Congress presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, who promised a return to subsidy.

Citing what he called his studies of scripture in the Bible and the Holy Quran, Tinubu recalled how the Red Sea parted when Moses left Egypt.

He likened the end of the subsidy regime to the exodus of the ancient Israelites from Egypt, saying, “You cannot ask Moses to go back to Egypt.”