There will be no Christmas and New Year holidays and celebration for some key members of the federal cabinet over the persistent fuel scarcity and epileptic power supply across the country.

Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan who gave the directive in Abuja yesterday said the affected ministers should remain at their duty posts throughout the festivities until normalcy returns in the supply of fuel and power stabilizes a bit.

The Minister of Information and Communications, Prof. Dora Akunyili, who gave this hint in Abuja yesterday when she briefed State House Correspondents on the outcome of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting said the Federal Government was concerned about the current development in the country.

Those affected are the Minister of Petroleum, Dr. Rilwanu Lukman, Minister of State, Mr. Odein Ajumogobia, the Minister of Power, Dr. Lanre Babalola and the Minister of State, Mr. Nuhu Wya.
Akunyili said because of the seriousness attached to them, the meeting which was presided over by the vice-president extensively deliberated on the issues with the relevant ministers briefing the council on the situation and what was being done to restore it to normalcy.

“The vice-president has openly told them that there is no holiday for them because they cannot afford to go on holidays when the people are suffering. They must stay back with him and find out ways of easing out the problems of Nigerians because Nigerians are suffering know that. We are worried. We are touched, but help us to do something systematic. If we just get angry, we will not solve so many things.

“We are not foreigners, we are Nigerians. We are also going through what you are going through in one way or the other. Like my own driver stayed in the filling station for hours. So we are not insulated from the problem. We feel your pain, we are going through the same pain but we have to do something constructive which we are doing right now”, she stated.

She said the vice president, who was still meeting with the affected ministers as at press time, had fixed several meetings with them during the holidays in a bid to resolve the fuel scarcity problem.
“The vice-president asked the Ministers of Petroleum to tell us what the problem is and they outlined the problems. One of them is that people are hoarding the fuel and the Minister of State for Petroleum even went round. And some of these people even went ahead to vandalise some of the serving points to prove that they are using one because others have gone bad. It is sabotage, it is unpatriotic, it is wickedness.” she further pointed out.

olalekan1:

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olalekan1:

see this Jonathan sef, he get mind o. Yaradua can not say such a thing.

olalekan1:

see this Jonathan sef, he get mind o. Yaradua can not say such a thing.

violent:

I wonder what difference it makes anyway