President Bola Tinubu has brushed aside calls for the return of fuel subsidy, comparing them to asking Moses to go back to Egypt. He insisted Nigeria cannot afford to restore the policy his government scrapped in 2023. The removal of the subsidy sent petrol prices climbing and squeezed household budgets across the country. Critics have kept up pressure on the administration to ease the pain, and some want a full reversal. Tinubu's biblical comparison cast the subsidy era as a bondage the nation has already left behind. He defended the removal as necessary to free up money for infrastructure and social programs. The message leaves little doubt that the presidency has no intention of turning back on the reform.