Oyegun, who spoke with THISDAY on telephone on Thursday afternoon, also commended President Buhari for keeping to the promise he made to Nigerians.
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Buhari also said preliminary steps had been taken to sanitise the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to curb its inefficiency and corruption.
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is to take personal charge of the country’s crucial oil portfolio, his spokesman, Femi Adesina said on Tuesday, as a deadline loomed for him to finally nominate his cabinet. “The first set of names for ministerial nominees has been sent to the Senate”. Each state of the federation is, by virtue of the constitution, entitled to a ministerial slot in the federal cabinet.
President Johnson Sirleaf expressed Liberia’s gratitude to the Nigerian Government for its enormous contributions to peace and security in Liberia and the post-conflict recovery including the secondment of Nigerian doctors and teachers, an intervention critical to achieving full recovery.
Elsewhere the president said “moderately encouraging” progress was being made to overhaul Nigeria’s woeful public electricity supply, predicting that “within months, the whole country would begin to feel a change for the better”.
The leader of the group, Shehu Ibrahim said that the APC claims that it was safeguarding internal democracy were just mere lip service adding party is in opposition to Saraki.
“I heard a few of the comments of those he met. He met Clinton for almost one hour and President Clinton, when I joined him for his global initiative, talked to me about the impression of our President, it was favourable”.
The Nigerian leader said that in about 18 months he would consider whether to break up the NNPC further to improve efficiency and better root out corruption, Reuters news agency reports. “We are on the right path”. But what counts is not so much what accrues but how we manage our resources that is important. His broadcast closed with an exhortation: “We must change our unruly behavior in schools, hospitals, market places, motor parks, on the roads, in homes, and offices”.
“To bring about change, we must change ourselves by being law-abiding citizens, ” he advised”.
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Analyst Malte Liewerscheidt of risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft said Buhari’s move would give himmaximum power to reform the oil and gas industry but warned that it is a “high-risk strategy” that links his fate as president with successful reform.
