President Muhammadu Buhari is set to
head the Ministry of Petroleum for 18 months before appointing a
substantive minister for the ministry,
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, said 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.
The source said, “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.
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