APC Will Slash Tariffs On Imported Cars –Osinbajo

Presidential Candidate of APC; 

General Muhamadu Buhari

Even as Nigerians wait anxiously for the April 2015 commencement date of the full implementation of the new auto policy of the Federal Government, the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) has assured that, it would reduce tariffs on imported vehicles, if voted into power in the coming elections.

Vice Presidential candidate of the APC; Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, who gave the assurance in Ondo state on Tuesday added that the General Muhammadu Buhari government will slash tariffs on all imported vehicles; new and old.

While addressing a town hall meeting of political stakeholders in Ondo State on Tuesday, Osinbajo said: “We do not agree that there should be high tariffs on imported cars whether new or old ones because Nigeria is not producing cars for now.

“What we will do first is to fix power and encourage local production of cars. But before then we will reduce the high tariffs that Nigerians are paying to import vehicles into the country.”

Prof. Osinbajo argued that Nigerians should not find it difficult to purchase cars for their socio-economic activities, and assured that the APC government would ensure lower tariffs when voted into power.

On power, the vice presidential candidate said the problem in Nigeria was traceable to the lack of supply of gas to the power plants.

He promised that module power plants would be situated in neighborhoods where power is needed and gas supplied to it using trucks and other means besides pipelines.

According to him, the model has already been put to use in Lagos State where such plants supply power to designated neighborhoods.http://shippingposition.com.ng/article/apc-will-slash-tariffs-imported-cars-%E2%80%93osinbajo