President Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari is set to head
the Ministry of Petroleum for 18 months before appointing a substantive
minister for the ministry, The PUNCH has learnt.
The President said this while meeting
with some members of his political party, the All Progressives Congress,
in Abuja recently.
One of those at the meeting, who spoke on
condition of anonymity, told our correspondent in Abuja on Sunday, that
the President said he would use the one and a half years of heading the
sensitive ministry to reposition it.
According to him, “At the meeting we had
recently, we discussed the issues of portfolios and other matters,” the
President said he was going to handle the Ministry of Petroleum himself
for about 18 months.
“He said it was after this that he would
appoint a substantive minister for the ministry. He said he would only
personally handle the reorganisation of the much-important ministry.
“Besides, he said the ministry needed to be reformed and be rid of corruption. He promised to sanitise the ministry.”
It
was, however, gathered that the President was thinking of appointing an
experienced person as his special adviser on petroleum.
Buhari was once a minister in charge of
the ministry and because of his experience, he was said to have vowed to
make sure that he blocked all the loopholes that enabled those manning
the ministry to either steal money or petroleum products.
This guy means business o!
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