Posted on: 06:36 Mon, 28 Mar 2016



The All Progressives Congress (APC)
has asked the Minister of Petroleum
Resources, Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu,
to honourably resign his position from
President Muhammadu Buhari’s led
government if he is not capable of
doing his part by efficiently running
the Ministry assigned to him and
providing workable solution to the
current fuel scarcity in the country.

Meanwhile, the party is silent on
what it expects of President
Muhammadu Buhari who himself is
the Minister of Petroleum.

The party also said it is high time
Kachikwu climb down from “his
high horse to face squarely the
duties required of him by his office,
as responsibility to the people is
one of the cardinal points of the
APC which he professes
membership.”

In a statement signed by the APC
national vice chairman, South-
south, Prince Hilliard Eta, the party
alleged that “Kachikwu has not
entirely cast off the orientation of
the Peoples Democratic Party where
he was”, adding that such is still
manifesting in his actions and
utterances such as the recent one
that attracted opprobrium from
many Nigerians.



“In the light of the foregoing, Mr.
Kachikwu must not be a cog in
the wheel of progress and he
should do the needful by
resigning honourably if he is not
capable of doing his part by
efficiently running the Ministry
assigned to him”.

While denying that there was major
rift in the party, APC said: “It is
important to reiterate here that
winning the federal election in
2015 has not eroded the core
ideology of progressivism which we
espouse as it is the very foundation
on which the party rest.

“This progressive ideology
strongly emphasises government
as a tool for service to the people
who are the custodians of power
in the first instance.

In line with this, it is not wrong or
out of place for Tinubu to call the
Minister of State for petroleum, Mr.
Ibe Kachikwu to order owing to the
anti-progressive statements he
made in the Presidential Villa on
Wednesday 23 March 2016 while
fielding questions from Journalists
on the persisting scarcity of petrol.