{"id":48014,"date":"2016-03-30T12:02:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T11:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=48014"},"modified":"2016-03-30T12:02:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T11:02:22","slug":"fuel-scarcity-kachikwu-says-wont-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/fuel-scarcity-kachikwu-says-wont-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel scarcity: Kachikwu says I wont resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>The Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu on Tuesday, March 29 said that he will not resign his position as minister as he still had a lot of work to do in the petroleum indstry.<\/p>\n<p>The minister made this disclosure as his closing remarks while briefing the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream) on the lingering scarcity of petroleum products.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll those planning to come to Abuja for a protest should save their fuel, I am not going to resign, I have a lot of work to do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The minister added that he did assume the position to be minister of petroleum in order to create scarcity.<br \/>\nHe added that he would work hard to find lasting solutions to the problems in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that he was pained as much as many Nigerians were that the country still suffered petroleum scarcity in spite of being one of the largest producers of crude in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Different groups including the South South APC and some Civil Society Organiations have called for the minister\u2019s resignation.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the NNPC to ensure there is local sufficiency of petroleum products due to the lingering fuel scarcity across the country.<\/p>\n<p>In a related development, the National Bureau of Statistics recently published the average prices of petrol in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>According to the information released, the highest price is in Yobe state while the lowest is in Edo state.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu on Tuesday, March 29 said that he will not resign his position as minister as he still had a lot of work&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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