The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to save Nigerians the trauma of sleeping in fuel stations by quitting as Minister of Petroleum Resources and allow competent hands to manage the affairs of the oil sector. The party in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan described as unpardonable, the failure of the Buhari Presidency to resolve its inflicted unabated fuel crisis, which had brought untold hardship to Nigerians.
He said as Minister of Petroleum, the President must accept responsibility for the failure of the sector to guarantee availability of petroleum product across the country.
“It is an appalling height of insensitivity that the President, as the Minister of Petroleum Resources, has failed to take any decisive steps to arrest the situation, which has remained unabated since the last Yuletide. Rather, the sector has been delivered to an APC cabal, whose mission, particularly, the desperate re-election bid, largely account for the biting fuel situation and the economic misery Nigerians suffer today.
It is instructive to state that the Presidency has refused to offer any explanation on the allegations linking the fuel crisis to the exposed siphoning of billions of naira through shady oil subsidy deals and the illegal lifting of crude oil worth trillions of naira, ostensibly to service APC interests ahead of the 2019 general elections.
The point is that owing to the ineptitude of the Buhari Presidency and the desperation to remain in power, millions of Nigerians are languishing. As we speak, the economy has further dipped in the last two months of this harrowing fuel situation; more businesses have folded up, prices of essential goods are skyrocketing and families are, more than ever before, under intense pressure of meeting economic demands.
Currently, marauders have chased farmers away from farmlands while Buhari Presidency continue to wax lip sermons on serious issues of insecurity. We call on President Buhari to quit this all important ministry of petroleum resources and allow competent hands to save our people from the anguish and pains they have been subjected to in the last few months,” the party said.
