Fuel Scarcity: Buhari should resign as Petroleum Minister

By Samuel Ogidan
Citing the perennial queues at filling stations due to fuel scarcity across the country, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has told President Muhammadu Buhari to resign as Minister of Petroleum Resources.
The party also urged the President to heed wise counsel and save Nigerians the trauma of sleeping in fuel stations by quitting as the minister and allowing competent hands to manage the sector.
The PDP, in a statement issued by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, described as unpardonable, the failure of the Buharia��s Presidency to resolve its inflicted unabated fuel crisis, which had brought untold hardship to Nigerians.
Ologbondiyan said that Buhari and his government should accept responsibility for the failure in the oil sector and the exacerbated economic and security situation in the country.
He said: “It is disheartening that instead of being remorseful for its failures, the All Progressives Congress (APC)-controlled Federal Government is busy dishing out lies and fabricated indices in an attempt to give Nigerians false hope on issues related to the fuel crisis and the collapsing national economy.
“If President Buhari had heed wise counsel from well-meaning Nigerians, since last year, to quit office as the Minister of Petroleum and allow a more competent and knowledgeable person to run the ministry, the situation would not have degenerated to excruciating pains Nigerians suffer today.
“The fact that the Presidency has unapologetically failed to fix a national problem, which it last December promised to resolve within one week, shows it has no solution but intends to continue to hold the nation to ransom,” he said.