I Will Be Petroleum Minister, Says Buhari

As the nation awaits President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial list, the President on Tuesday said he would head the Ministry of Petroleum Resources.Buhari dropped the hint in one of the interviews

he granted one of the foreign media in his hotel shortly before departing New York.The President was in New York to participate in the 70th United Nations General Assembly.“I will serve as the Minister of Petroleum Resources myself,” Buhari told his interviewer.The nation’s petroleum sector has been
said to be enmeshed in corruption with millions of dollars said to be missing in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.Shortly after assuming office, Buhari sacked and replaced the management of the company.The new management had started a general reorganisation of the firm.Buhari had on Monday said the trial of those who looted the NNPC would commence soon. Meanwhile, ministerial list that President Muhammadu Buhari will submit to the Senate on Wednesday (today)will not contain all the members of his proposed cabinet, THE PUNCH has learnt.
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