Step down as Minister of Petroleum now, group tells Buhari

ABUJA – The National Chairman, Young Progressive Party, YPP, Comrade Bishop Amakiri, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to step down as Minister of Petroleum Resource.

Amakiri who made the call via an open letter to Mr. President also called for immediate suspension of the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, and the Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr. Maikanti Baru from office.

Amakiri specifically stated that investigation of the allegation and counter allegation of misappropriation and gross abuse of office against Dr. Maikanti Baru and Dr. Ibe Kachukwu in order to ascertain the level of culpability in the fraudulent award of contracts to the tune of $26billion dollars without following due process by the former and the probe of the later tenure as GMD NNPC.

It would be recalled that the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, had recently accused Mr. Baru of insubordination and breach of due process in contract awards and appointments.

He said, The ongoing allegation of corruption and gross abuse of office against the GMD of NNPC in the person of Dr. Maikanti Baru by the Hon. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachukwu is one case too many and just like every other corruption cases before it such as the corruption allegation against the Chief of Staff, Alhaji Abba Kyari and the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir David Lawal will not be swept under the carpet thereby giving credence to the statement of Senator Shehu Sani that the President fights corruption with insecticide when it comes to others but uses deodorant when it comes to