A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Olusegun Osinkolu , has praised the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu , for cautioning the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu on how to address Nigerians on the issue of fuel scarcity.
He said the statement made by Tinubu was in the best interest of Nigerians and the APC-led government and should not be mischievously misinterpreted to mean existence of crack within the ruling party.
Speaking in Ayede Ekiti on Sunday while addressing his supporters, Osinkolu dispelled the insinuation milling rounds that Kachikwu is not competent to handle the Ministry .
Supporting Tinubu’s vituperation against Kachikwu, Osinkolu said Nigerians who are at the receiving end of the hard-biting scarcity expected proactive action from government in line with the change agenda of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s government and that Kachikwu’s response was not the best way to assuage Nigerians’ feelings.
Osinkolu vehemently disagreed with the proposition by some people that the minister should resign, describing this as another way of exacerbating the problem created by the oil scarcity.
“Though it is going to take a while before the issue of oil scarcity will be resolved, but the minister should learn how to manage the public. He should try and understand the mood of the people. How can a minister be saying that he is not a magician under this circumstance?. I don’t think it is right.
“This is not the first time Nigeria will be experiencing fuel scarcity, but President Muhammadu Buhari represents change and this must reflect in our deeds and actions in APC. Kachikwu should have handled the current situation better than addressing the public in such a haughty and brazen manner.
“So, I want to thank our leader, Asiwaju Tinubu for mustering the bravado to speak even against someone who is in his own party.
“It is Nigerians that are bearing the burden and the best way to help President Buhari is to speak out the truth on how best to run the country not minding the personality making the comments.
“But this scarcity doesnot mean Buhari’s government is overwhelmed. The problem had been there for long, it is not a new problem, what the government is trying to do is to fix it and this they will do with Nigerians’ supports”, he said.
On Governor Ayodele Fayose’s criticism of Buhari ‘s government, Osinkolu advised the governor to face the daunting task of governance, rather than dissipating energy on a President, who has been working assiduously to make a tremendous positive impacts on the lives of Nigerians.
Osinkolu said it was rather appalling for Fayose to abandon governance for what he called frivolities, urging him to stop dissipating energy on Buhari in the interest of the people.
He also emphasized the need for expeditious dissolution of the State Working Committee of the APC in Ekiti, for the current efforts at concretizing the party to really materialize.
Osinkolu hinted that the membership of the Chief Jide Awe-led SWC in the state were handpicked and that it would be tantamount to illegality for such structure to be retained till the next election in 2018.
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