Senator Shehu Sani (APC Kaduna) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to stop combining his duties as the country’s Commander-In-Chief with that of the petroleum ministry.
Shehu advised Buhari to as a matter of urgency appoint a substantive and trusted minister of petroleum.
Sani made the call in a statement on Thursday.
He said because of the demands of the presidential office, the president is obviously restricted in his supervisory role as the Minister of Petroleum, under whom Kachikwu functions as the Minister of State of Petroleum.
“President Buhari should disengage from being a Petroleum Minister and appoint a substantive minister whom the nation can hold accountable to the happenings in the nation oil industry,” he said.
“The President position as a minister can drag him into issues in the oil sector of which he has limited time to attend to. A broom immersed in oil cannot sweep clean.”
TheNewsGuru.com reports that the call is coming amid a contract scandal raised by Kachikwu against the General Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Commission, NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru