BREAKING NEWS, Oil & Gas
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THE Presidency on Sunday, March 27, rose in stout defence of Ibe Kachikwu, minister of state for Petroleum Resources, who at the weekend came under scathing criticism by Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, over comments on the current fuel scarcity across the federation.
Kachikwu, who is also the group managing director, GMD, of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, was quoted as saying that he could not perform magic in solving the problem of fuel scarcity, a statement Tinubu considered insensitive and insulting to the sensibilities of Nigerians.
But the Presidency on Sunday, March 27, defended Kachikwu saying the minister was speaking the truth when he said that Nigerians would have to wait until May for the scarcity to go away.
Femi Adesina, spokesman to the president, speaking on Channels Television programme: “Sunday Politics,” said the minister should not be crucified for telling Nigerians the truth.
He pointed out that Nigerians were unhappy with the statement credited to the minister because they wanted him to perform magic which would make the commodity readily available in two weeks.
Adesina, however, stressed that the truth which Nigerians should accept was that it would take weeks before the scarcity would go away.
Uzoma Nkem- Abonta, chairman of the House of Representatives committee on Public Petitions, has upbraided Tinubu for his criticism of Kachikwu over the handling of the energy crises in the polity.
In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, Nkem -Abonta wondered why Tinubu chose to meddle in the affairs of the Petroleum minister with a presidential mandate to fix the problem in the sector.
The lawmaker, however, enjoined Tinubu not to reduce a sensitive issue relating to the management of the petroleum sector into an APC affair
— Mar 28, 2016 @ 13:35 GMT
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