Asiwaju Bola Tinubu
National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has chided the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu, over his comment that he could not magically end the current fuel crisis in the country.
On the contrary, Tinubu asked Kachikwu to put on his creative cap to end the crisis, adding that his position contradicted the progressive ideas the Buhari administration stands for.
“The art of governance is difficult and complex, especially during trying times. The steep reduction in global oil prices from over 100 dollars per barrel to roughly 40 presents a hard challenge,” he said in a statement.
“We can no longer afford past practices. Nigeria now requires creative reform, materially changing the substance of national economic policy as well as the objectives of that policy and how the policy is presented to the people. Therein lies the essence of progressive democratic governance.
“The Buhari administration represents the last best hope we have to install such governance in Nigeria and avert the catastrophe that would have befallen us had the prior government remained in place. Had the nation continued with the spendthrift corruption and vagabond economic policies of that administration, we would have soon experienced such a collision with the harsh consequences of that government’s malign ways that our very institutions of government may have been distorted beyond fixture and repair.”
“In this effort, there may be no economic matter more difficult to unravel and more sensitive to the purse of the average person than the current fuel scarcity. Even here I am confident of progress because I know the commitment of the president to resolving this matter. I make no attempt to hide it. I am an avid and partisan supporter of this government and of the progressive policies of the party, the APC, …Read More
Source:: PM Newspaper
