The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) has 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 its affairs.
The party described as
unpardonable, the failure of the Buhari Presidency to resolve its inflicted
unabated fuel crisis, which had brought untold hardship to Nigerians.
It said President Buhari, as Minister
of Petroleum, must directly accept responsibility for the manifest failure in
the oil sector, even as his government should be held responsible for the
exacerbated economic and security situation in the country under its watch.
PDP National Publicity Secretary,
Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement on Sunday, said it was 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.
The PDP said 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 party said 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.
According to the PDP, the fact
that there were inherent poor coordination, inefficiency and reported heavy
sleazes in a sector that is under the direct supervision of the President,
raises a lot of issues and speaks volumes of the evident mismanagement of the
system for which the economy is now in complete shambles.
“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.
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