Ibe Kachikwu, the Minister of State for Petroleum, on Tuesday said President Muhammadu Buhari in the last three years never asked him to discretionarily allocate oil blocks or contracts to any of his associates.
He said this at the ongoing 2018 edition of the Nigeria Oil and Gas, NOG, Conference, and Exhibition in Abuja while noting that he has done a lot in restructuring the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.
The Minister said he had been able to undertake several restricting efforts in the country’s oil industry because Buhar never tried to influence him negatively.
He said, “A lot of work has been done in the restructuring of NNPC started by me, continued by Dr. Baru. Transparency has also been a key pivot led by His Excellency, the President.
“One of the reasons we have done so well is the fact that quite frankly, in my three years of serving as petroleum minister of state, I haven’t received a single call from the president urging me to do an allocation to somebody or give a block to somebody, I have not received such a call.”
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