Northern
youths under the auspices of Northern Youth Council of Nigeria, (NYCN), have
demanded the immediate resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari as petroleum
minister to end persistent fuel crisis in the country.
In a statement signed
by President of NYCN, Isah Abubakar, copy of which was made available to DAILY
POST in Kaduna on Monday, the group said Mr. President should resign as Petroleum
Minister and appoint a substantive Minister of Petroleum resources for
effective service delivery.
The statement reads,
“President Buhari should appoint a Group Managing Director for Nigeria National
Petroleum Corporation and relieve the minister of state for petroleum resources
of double appointments.
“We realize that since
Mr. President’s pronouncement of himself as Substantive Minister of Petroleum,
the situation and availability of petroleum products especially that of premium
motor spirit (PMS) in the market has become very scarce, indicating total
failure on the part of Mr President as the Minister of petroleum resource and
Ibe Kachikwu as Minister of State and GMD of NNPC.
“We demand that Mr.
President hire a competent hand to handle the ministry and appoint a new GMD
for NNPC as this will enable effectiveness and productivity in the ministry and
agency.
“We understand that
your administration has good intention for the masses and the country but the
scarcity of petroleum products in the market have inflate more pains on us as a
people.
“The cost of
transportation, food items and other essential household commoditities had
drastically increase.”
Abubakar, however,
threatened massive protest if the situation persist more than reasonable time.
“We wish to
emphatically state that if this condition persist, Nigeria Youth will not
hesitate to mobilize ourselves across the country for massive protest, this we
believed will shutdown the economy of the country as we are already in
consultation with other civil society organization to map out effective
National protest,” he concluded
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