From WOLE BALOGUN, Ado-Ekiti
Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has called for immediate resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari as the Petroleum Minister, as he blames the Federal Government ‘s nonchallant attitude to solving the problem for persistent fuel scarcity in the country.
The governor, who again alleged that the Federal Government was punishing Nigerians with fuel scarcity so as to achieve its planned increment of petrol pump price from N145 to not less than N185 per litre, noted that: “Already, fuel
is being sold officially at between N180 and N200 at petrol stations across the country.”
In a release issued yesterday, Governor Fayose’s Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, quoted him as saying that “It is sad that this Buhari’s APC government had to choose this Christmas and New Year period to ground Nigeria with the fuel scarcity that it deliberately orchestrated.”
The governor called for the immediate resignation of President Buhari as the Minister of Petroleum, noting that “it is obvious that the
President has failed in all ramifications and he needs to do Nigerians a favour by relinquishing the portfolio of minister of petroleum.”
Governor Fayose said; “Like I said a few days ago, what the Federal Government is doing is to create scarcity so that Nigerians will be willing to buy at any price, provided the product is made available.