ndications have emerged in Abuja on why President Goodluck Jonathan hurriedly removed subsidy from petroleum products on January 1, 2012.

An investigation by our correspondent showed that the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party and some politicians insisted that the subsidy must be removed early in his regime.

The leadership of the party, led by its acting National Chairman, Alhaji Kawu Baraje, was said to have mounted pressure on Jonathan to remove the subsidy on time before another general election.

The party’s fear, according to sources within its hierarchy, was that if the subsidy was not removed on time, and with the expected protests that would follow it, it was capable of affecting the fortune of the party at the next general elections.

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