The Trade Union Congress, TUC has called for the immediate resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria’s Minister of Petroleum Resources.
Speaking at the Save Nigeria Oil and Gas Industry Round Table in Abuja, Comrade Bobboi Bala Kaigama, President of the TUC, said that Buhari should relinquish the office because it is too critical to the economy to be combined with the office of the President and Commander-In -Chief.
He went on to say “That position is too important to the economy to be subsumed as one of the many offices or portfolios of the President and Commander-in-Chief. Of course the position of the Minister of State for Petroleum and Mineral Resources should continue to exist as a junior minister in the ministry. A separate Group Managing Director(GMD) of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) should also be appointed to directly supervise the affairs of the NNPC.”
Kaigama said all the appointees must be persons of bold, incorruptible and sound principles, adding that the cabals in the sector emerged due to corruption.
“It is high time we halt the ugly trend whereby members of the cabal are paid billions of naira for ‘fuel imports’ that never reach our shores.”
