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Fuel Scarcity: Why Tinubu Is After Kachukwu—NYCN

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The National Youth Council of Nigeria, NYCN, has come down hard on the national leader of the All Progressives Congress ( APC), Bola Tinubu, for his comments against the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu, in relation to the ongoing fuel crisis across the country.

The youths said that Tinubu was pursuing a personal vendetta with the minister because Kachukwu appointed Mrs. Onikepo Animashaun from Lagos State as the General Manager of the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), against Tinubu’s wish.

In a statement signed by its national president, Barr. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere and made available to The UNION, the NYCN said Tinubu’s outburst was a smokescreen and a personal battle cloaked in the gab of altruism.

The statement reads in part: ”The essence of the statement was not to help in any way to solve the problem but to cast Mr. Kachikwu in bad light and put pressure on Mr. President to sack the Minister of State.

“The reasons are not farfetched; Bola Tinubu vehemently opposed the appointment of Mrs. Onikepo Animashaun as the General Manager of the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), by Mr. Kachikwu. The appointment was, in Tinubu’s view, done on the recommendation of Pastor Tunde Bakare and with the blessing of Babatunde Fashola who is believed not to be in Tinubu’s political structure any longer.

”Asiwaju believes that for anyone from Lagos State to get an appointment in this administration, it would have to be with his express say so. Why should he play God when he is a man? Why must the Minister and indeed the Nigerian petroleum sector face turmoil just because the Minister refused to sack Mrs. Animashaun as demanded by Bola Tinubu. Asiwaju should know by now that he cannot always have it his own way.

”The attack on Kachikwu was an smokescreen plot by Tinubu to indirectly lower the ratings of President Buhari before the eyes of ordinary Nigerians because the ongoing reforms embarked by the Minister is not favouring the Interest of Tinubu, Hence he chose to attack the President indirectly by hitting on Kachikwu”.

The  statement gave the petroleum minister a clean bill of health saying that the oil industry reforms by Kachikwu was working and within a short period of time the gains of this reforms would provide sustainable energy problem solution for Nigerians.

“Nigerians have more stake in the Buhari administration than Tinubu because the failure of the administration will hurt more on ordinary Nigerians than Tinubu and we shall not allow him to destabilise the administration”, it said.

The youths therefore called on President Muhammadu Buhari and Mr. Ibe Kachikwu to concentrate on the urgent task of ending the fuel crisis and not be distracted by persons “who because they over rate themselves are angry that the entire wealth of the nation has not been handed over to them”.

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