Labour Party (LP) Presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Mr. Peter Obi, has questioned the new increase in the cost of Nigeria’s international passport, stressing that it is alarming that the price of a passport is now “higher than what workers earn in a month.”
Obi, a former Governor of Anambra State, in an X (formerly Twitter) post, noted that “International Passport fees in Nigeria have now skyrocketed to ₦100,000 for a 32-page booklet and ₦200,000 for 64 pages,” pointing out that this “is the third increase in just two years.”
He said that Nigeria is probably the only country in the world that has achieved the feat of having its passport costing more than the minimum wage of its workers.
“In a country where the new minimum wage is only ₦70,000, the cost of a single passport now exceeds a worker’s monthly salary, probably the only country in the world to achieve this feat,” he said.
He also noted that “the obsession of this administration with putting a burden on the populace is becoming legendary and continues to reveal its apparent disconnect with the people and the suffering,” concluding that “Instead of making life easier, this government keeps shifting the burden onto ordinary Nigerians.”
