Following the announcement by
President Muhammadu Buhari that he will combine his office with that of
the minister of petroleum, the Nigerian Association of Chambers of
Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) on Wednesday,
September 30 advised against the idea of not appointing a minister of
petroleum adding that such move will lead to him be overworked.
According to Billy Harry, the national vice president of
NACCIMA, the workload of the president is too much. He questioned the
president was taking more loads, noting that this move will only
distract the president rather keep him deliver the change he promised,
Vanguard reports.
Harry said that in order for the president to get the best out of his administration he must separate himself from ministerial duties and focus on directing the affairs of ministers for optimum performance.
He said: “It will distract him and not give him the required space and work time to be able to administer facets of the economy and policies. We have so many more issues other oil. Agriculture alone can swallow everything that oil is doing.”
“Agriculture alone can give us over 500 per cent of income stream of what oil is doing. So, does it mean that if he wants to curb corruption in that sector, he has to also be minister of agriculture?
“The President has to be very focused on job of supervising the entire economy as a polity. I don’t think I will advise him to saddle himself with additional responsibility.”
Peter Esele, the immediate past president of TUC said that President Buhari may not be able to deliver on other key sectors if he saddles himself with the duties of minister of petroleum.
The former TUC boss said Esele: “Theoretically, he can get away with it to a level, but what I am also looking at is the volume of work, because I think that the president has so much clean up to do, not only in the NNPC; with institutionalizing transparency and best practice, not only in the oil and gas sector, but in the entire economy, so that we can move on.”
“But no matter what happened, we should give the President the benefit of the doubt. If it works, we all clap for him, and if he fails, he will be criticized. I think the bottom line is that he is the president and he is going to appoint minister of state for petroleum, from what I gathered. And between the minister of state and the GMD of the NNPC, they will report to him.
“What we have during the time of Obasanjo, there was no minister of state. He was the minister of petroleum and he only had a special adviser on petroleum, which is not the same office as a minister.”
Meanwhile, Otunba Henry Ajomale, the chairman of the All Progressives Congress Lagos state, has said Buhari’s decision to appoint himself as petroleum minister was due to the president’s knowledge about the sector, haven served as a former minister of petroleum resources in the 80s.
Ajomale added that the need to protect the sector from massive looting which was the norm in past administrations could have also informed Buhari’s decision to appoint himself as minister.
Source: Naij
President Muhammadu Buhari
Harry said that in order for the president to get the best out of his administration he must separate himself from ministerial duties and focus on directing the affairs of ministers for optimum performance.
He said: “It will distract him and not give him the required space and work time to be able to administer facets of the economy and policies. We have so many more issues other oil. Agriculture alone can swallow everything that oil is doing.”
“Agriculture alone can give us over 500 per cent of income stream of what oil is doing. So, does it mean that if he wants to curb corruption in that sector, he has to also be minister of agriculture?
“The President has to be very focused on job of supervising the entire economy as a polity. I don’t think I will advise him to saddle himself with additional responsibility.”
Peter Esele, the immediate past president of TUC said that President Buhari may not be able to deliver on other key sectors if he saddles himself with the duties of minister of petroleum.
The former TUC boss said Esele: “Theoretically, he can get away with it to a level, but what I am also looking at is the volume of work, because I think that the president has so much clean up to do, not only in the NNPC; with institutionalizing transparency and best practice, not only in the oil and gas sector, but in the entire economy, so that we can move on.”
“But no matter what happened, we should give the President the benefit of the doubt. If it works, we all clap for him, and if he fails, he will be criticized. I think the bottom line is that he is the president and he is going to appoint minister of state for petroleum, from what I gathered. And between the minister of state and the GMD of the NNPC, they will report to him.
“What we have during the time of Obasanjo, there was no minister of state. He was the minister of petroleum and he only had a special adviser on petroleum, which is not the same office as a minister.”
Meanwhile, Otunba Henry Ajomale, the chairman of the All Progressives Congress Lagos state, has said Buhari’s decision to appoint himself as petroleum minister was due to the president’s knowledge about the sector, haven served as a former minister of petroleum resources in the 80s.
Ajomale added that the need to protect the sector from massive looting which was the norm in past administrations could have also informed Buhari’s decision to appoint himself as minister.
Source: Naij
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