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PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan declared on Sunday that the Federal Government will not deregulate the subsidy regime in 2013.

The president made the declaration during the Presidential media chat aired on the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA).

This is just as he told Nigerians that he will prefer to wait till 2014 to declare his ambition for 2015 in order not to distract his administration.

The president said that the government has already accommodated fuel subsidy in the 2013 budget. He disclosed that his administration has no intention of removing fuel subsidy in 2013.

According to him, recent media reports credited to him were misrepresentations as he was only comparing the Nigerian situation with that of Canada, which has 16 refineries, when he played host to students from the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) in his office.