Politics
Buhari Should Relinquish Petroleum Minister Portfolio – Senator Sani
Senator Shehu Sani has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to relinquish the Petroleum minister portfolio and appoint someone else to manage the nation’s oil industry.
In a facebook post, Senator Sani representing Kaduna Central in the upper chamber of the National Assembly said President Buhari should disengage from being a petroleum minister.
”President Buhari should disengage from being a Petroleum Minister and appoint a substantive minister whom the nation can hold accountable to the happenings in the nation oil industry.
”The President position as a minister can drag him into issues in the oil sector of which he has limited time to attend to.
”A broom immersed in oil cannot sweep clean,” he posted.
Senator Sani’s advice is coming on the heels of a disturbing memo written to the president by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, where he complained of being humiliated by the Group Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Baru.
Kachikwu revealed that his working relationship with Baru has been “fraught with humiliation, sidelining, and campaigns of character defamation against me”.
“This is particularly frustrating given the many contributions I have made to the growth and stability of the Nigerian oil and gas industry through the many policies I have introduced since August 2015.
“If NNPC is considered and known to be one of the parastatals under the ministry, why does the GMD refuse to report to my office or to the board on serious issues such as above, especially given that I have been by Your Grace, the minister with oversight responsibilities over these parastatals for two years?” Kachikwu queried.
The minister further alleged that when he called for meetings, Baru would send his subordinates without the courtesy of a call to explain his absence.
He said he had managed the bad perception created by Baru’s blatant insubordination and disrespectful attitude and had also worked hard to avoid being seen as petty and meddlesome.
The minister alleged that Baru has created a fear culture in NNPC, against the open administration he had introduced with the president’s support in their first year of pushing reforms.
“NNPC staff are afraid of contacting me to avoid being punished, sidelined in appointments and targeted. Indeed, the key factor for growth and advancement in NNPC of today is to avoid the Minister of State’s Office,” Kachikwu added.
Christopher Ochini
October 5, 2017 at 3:24 pm
Correct
Lucy O Ugwoji
October 5, 2017 at 1:51 pm
Because he want to steal oil money.Same reason he is killing Biafrans.GOD will expose him more.
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Divine Channel
October 5, 2017 at 12:57 pm
Where’s Mr integrity? $25b they done destroy Nigeria o.
Eze Martin Chinedu
October 5, 2017 at 12:53 pm
The binding force in Nigerias unity is oil
oblano
October 5, 2017 at 1:43 pm
Sorry Oga we warned you.
Obafemi Gbenga
October 5, 2017 at 12:31 pm
Dasuki gate=$2.1Bilion
Baru gate=$25Bilion
Abeg which is the lesser evil?
Kachukwu is complaining like he doesn’t know Baru is part of the kitchen cabinet, those who ran Nigeria when buhari was on exile in London. Buhari knows all Baru has implemented, Kachukwu is just a fictional Minister to decieve the south….. PMB and Baru is the all and all in Nigerias oil and gas industry. NNPC is now a subsidiary of the Fulani Caliphate. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. This is why people call Nigeria a ZOO, were animals want to subjugate humans and suck the living day light out of them. Lazy parasites!!!! The CURSED Fulani in Federal institutions behave as if Fed Govt is their family inheritance and they have the right to do what they like with impunity. As Fulani are displaying arrogance in the NNPC under Dr Ibe is the same manner they treated VP Osinbajo when he was made Acting President. Osibanjo was ridicule and made to look like an apointee by cabals… Amaechi was force to relinquished aviation to sadiki after many battles and insubordination by sadiki and co….and this is happening now. Due process is not in their “DNA” at all, no matter how they try and we happened to have a religious and ethnic bigots in the presidency…. Those brainwashed Non Fulani that claim to be progressives in “APC” these is complete indictments and it is time to define the meaning of progressive… The government of Mohammed buhari is full of nepotism, ultra conservative, corrupt, divisive and inept in the history of Nigeria. Dr Ibe should just resign rather allowing himself to be played around by Fulani. The Niger-delta Petroleum was conquered by the Fulani, therefore Dr Ibe is an outsider. Ibe Kachikwu, the option left for you is, to resign and go home with your honor in tact. Or be disgraced out of office? The choice is yours!
Chikezie Anyalewechi
October 5, 2017 at 12:53 pm
If Ibe kachukwu resign and the corrupt president put his fellow Fulani in his place, then the worst will happen. He should be there as representative of Niger delta to monitor the activity of the president and his cohorts .
Joan Odiachi
October 5, 2017 at 12:30 pm
Good
Enobong Udoh
October 5, 2017 at 12:25 pm
How can somebody that has not gone to school be the petroleum minister