President Buhari Appoints SelfAs Petroleum Minister

A glimpse into the cabinet list of
President Muhammadu Buhari has
been revealed by the President
himself

He will head the Ministry of Petroleum
Resources in the new cabinet.
But he added that he will appoint a minister
of state for the ministry.
Addressing some select reporters in New York
on Tuesday, after addressing a Global
Leaders’ Summit on Countering ISIL and
Violent Extremism, he said: “I wil remain
Minister of Petroleum.
“I will appoint a minister of State for
Petroleum”.
According to him, this step is being taken as
part of efforts to sanitise Nigeria’s oil
industry which is said to be plagued by
corruption, massive fraud, and crude oil theft.
Buhari restated his determination to sanitise
Nigeria’s oil industry and free it from
corruption and shady deals.
He said that the first step in this direction
had already been taken with the appointment
of a new management for the NNPC and its
subsequent reorganisation.
The President said that the prosecution of
those who misappropriated NNPC’s revenue
under past administrations would soon
commence.
On Corruption, he pledged that the federal
government will fight corruption, because it
has been identified as the root of all
problems hindering Nigeria as a nation.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, for
most part of his tenure, was the minister of
petroleum.