A Second Republic lawmaker,
Junaid Mohammed has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari has run out of
ideas.
Buhari had in his New Year
message, put blame of the ongoing acute fuel scarcity on some saboteurs.
Speaking in an interview with the
Tribune, Mohammed, said, “I think it was too cheap. He is the president of this
country; he has more power than any individual, in or out of government.
“He is, in addition to being the
president, also the Minister of Petroleum and he has all the responsibilities
on all matters of oil. Part of the campaign rhetoric when he was running for
the presidency was that, first, he was going to make the problem of fuel
shortage a thing of the past.
“He was a minister before and it
was felt that he handled the ministry very well. He was a minister before, now
a minister and also the president of this country.
“If he didn’t know that there are
saboteurs in the oil industry; if you don’t know that a lot of the crises in
the oil industry are man-made and are not inevitable, then it is too bad.
Frankly speaking, I think he has lost the right to be a minister.
“Secondly, all that we have been
told about his competencies is nothing but lies. I do not want to take up
issues with him or anybody because he has been a minister now since 2015.
“He must carry the blame and he
must stop passing the buck. He should carry his responsibilities.
“The first thing he should have
done is to apologise to the people of this country. Secondly, after the
apology, he should tell us what is the way out because we are sick and tired of
this crisis, especially around Christmas and public holidays.
“Now that he has agreed that
there are saboteurs, what does he plan to do to them? If they are going to be
punished, how is he going to punish them?
“Is he going to punish them
within the rule of law or is he going to go out and do what he did during his
first term as the military Head of State by taking unilateral and arbitrary
decision by appointing special tribunals and sentencing people to 60 years, 100
years or 120 years imprisonment?
“Whichever way you look at it, he
has bungled the whole thing; he has messed up the economy of the country and he
has run out of ideas, even bad ideas.”
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