Buhari, Kachikwu get seven- day ultimatum to end queues

– CNPP threatens to mobilize the organized
labour, civil society groups and the masses
to occupy the NNPC until the minister and
minister of state of petroleum resources
resign

– The group accuses Buhari, Kachikwu of
displaying a track record of undeniable and
monumental ineptitude in resolving the
problems associated with fuel scarcity

– Calls on the ministry of petroleum
resources to stop the blame games and lack
of will and tell Nigerians the truth about the
lingering fuel scarcity

The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties
(CNPP) has issued a seven-day ultimatum to
President Muhammadu Buhari and Ibe
Kachikwu to end fuel queues cross the
country or resign from their respective
positions as minister and minister of state
for petroleum resources.

The CNPP has called on the Ministry of
Petroleum Resources to tell Nigerians the
truth about the lingering fuel scarcity.

The CNPP in a statement jointly issued in
Abuja on Thursday, April 28, by its national
chairman, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, and the
secretary general, Chief Willy Ezugwu,
warned that at the end of the ultimatum, it
will mobilize the organized labour, civil
society groups and the masses to occupy
the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
(NNPC) until the minister and minister of
state resign, News men reports.

The group accused both Buhari, Kachikwu of
displaying a track “ record of undeniable and
monumental ineptitude in resolving the
problems associated with Fuel Scarcity in the
last 11 months”.

It said: “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 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 group lamented that “ after blaming some
people who rather than sell products send
them into hinterlands where they can sell at
ridiculous prices to make quick returns on
their investments wrongly, the Ministry few
days ago blamed the scarcity on 30% of supply
allegedly diverted outside Nigeria”.

CNPP reminded the government that it has
all the security apparatus and personnel to
tract the saboteurs who are allegedly
diverting petroleum products outside Nigeria
and bring them to justice.

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