Jonathan over-rules Petroleum Minister on sale of refineries

•No fuel price increase —Ministry, DPR

03/01/2014



Petroleum Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke has been over-ruled by President Goodluck Jonathan on the sale of the country’s four refineries.

The minister had last month announced that the refineries would be sold this quarter but the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Union (NUPENG) warned government to abandon the plan or they would go on strike and ground the economy.

Speaking on the issue yesterday, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, told State House correspondents in Abuja: “Government is not going to sell any refinery. There is no such plan and there is no presidential approval for such. Nobody, not even the Minister of Petroleum has the powers to sell any government property.”

Abati spoke even as the Ministry of Petroleum Resources dismissed rumours about looming fuel scarcity and price increase. In a statement in Abuja by the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Mr. Danladi Kifasi, said the rumours lacked foundation.

In another statement, also in Abuja, Dr. Omar Farouk Ibrahim, spokesman of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), disclosed that the corporation has the mandate to keep at least 32 days of fuel reserve in case of any unforeseen circumstance.

•Photo shows Petroleum Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke.

Source News Express

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Govt. of the Confused, For the Confused and By the Confused...

Anyway...by the time APC takes over the National Assembly...

There will be NO WAY FG will be allowed to do anything without approval by the NATIONAL ASSEMBLY (APC)

GBAM!!!!

Dangote must have warned GEJ.

They should have sold 2 refineries to Dangote at N100 each as long as he promised to use his funds to rebuild them and put them back online. mumus

Why do our heads of ministries and parastatals talk too much and end up contradicting each other? President Jonathan should just put a media gag on all of them, let's be getting the government's position only from the presidency.

soe: Govt. of the Confused, For the Confused and By the Confused...

Anyway...by the time APC takes over the National Assembly...

There will be NO WAY FG will be allowed to do anything without approval by the NATIONAL ASSEMBLY (APC)

GBAM!!!!

mumu, APC being the majority in House of Reps is meaningless. Check US national assembly and see

me_for_you: mumu, APC being the majority in House of Reps is meaningless. Check US national assembly and see

see this one talking?

Confused government. It shows that they're all uncoordinated. Each person giving their own pronouncements.

The scumbag is scared of 2015, because he is a dumb a*ss who don't give a damn about good governance. Those women and other aid have been playing him, left and right for long. he will still go behind and beg the minister for the embarrassment he cause her, if not ....

That woman"s big eyeballs would definitely fall off.