OPC to Buhari: Appoint a Petroleum Minister now

The pan-Yoruba group, Oodua People’s Congress, has said President Muhammadu Buhari failed as Minister of Petroleum saying, “He simply lacks the health, the capacity and the creativity to manage Nigeria’s biggest revenue resource”.
OPC, therefore, admonished him to appoint a substantive Minister or Petroleum.
It also said that armed Fulani militias today constitute the real threat to national unity “with their rapacious evil campaigns throughout the length and breadth of Nigeria.”
Addressing newsmen in Lagos on Tuesday, the OPC, through its founder and National President, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, urged Buhari to learn from former President Goodluck Jonathan who appointed a substantive Minister of Petroleum, saying this ensured for six years back-to-back, that queues disappeared from petrol stations.
” Buhari should relinquish the mantle of Minister of Petroleum to a competent and experienced petroleum industrialist whose sole mandate will be to get the refineries operating at full capacity and ensure local production for domestic consumption within three to six months”, Fasehun said.
He further said that Fulani herdsmen that killed innocent Nigerians must be brought to book and made to feel the full weight of the law .
OPC also said that the appointments of dead people as Directors and Chairmen of parastatals is a proof that the people in power lack the capacity to drive development.
” It further exposes the filthy, unserious and mediocre way that government is being run .Things must change in 2018. This divide-and-rule must stop and Buhari should rule Nigeria as leader of Nigeria and for Nigerians, not the leader for the North,” Fasehun said.
OPC further charged President Buhari to adopt a national policy of free education at all levels, saying this era of recession demands the nation to seriously consider taking the burden of school fees off parents.
Fasehun said the past three years had witnessed an inordinate ambition by the Buhari-led executive to intimidate, bully and capture the two other arms of government-the legislature and the judiciary.