The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Ministry of Petroleum Resources to end ongoing scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit cross the country or face its wrath.
They stated they would occupy the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) until the minister resigned.
National chairman of CNPP and former Kaduna State governor, Alhaji Balarabe Musa and the secretary general, Chief Willy Ezugwu, stated yesterday in Abuja in a statement that both the minister and minister of state for Petroleum Resources had shown a track record of monumental failure in ending the fuel scarcity in the last 11 months.
“While the minister of state for Petroleum Resources and Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Ibe Kachikwu has kept double talking on the issue, the minister and President, Muhammadu Buhari on his part has maintained relative silence.
“About seven months ago, Kachikwu had confessed: ‘Personally, I will have chosen to sell the refineries, but President Muhammadu Buhari has instructed that they should be fixed. After they are fixed, if they still operate below 60 per cent, then we will know what to do.’
“A 90-day presidential ultimatum for the refineries to be fixed ended in December and the deadline was not met. In the same vein, the government set April 7 deadline to end the fuel queues being experienced across the country, again, the deadline was not meet,” the statement stated.
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