PMB Should Step Down As Petroleum Minister - Shehu Sani

The senator representing Kaduna central senatorial district, Senator Shehu Sani, have called on the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari to step down from his position as the petroleum minister of the country.

In his statement, he said “President Buhari should disengage from being a Petroleum Minister and appoint a substantive minister whom the nation can hold accountable to the happenings in the nation oil industry,”

“The President position as a minister can drag him into issues in the oil sector of which he has limited time to attend to. A broom immersed in oil cannot sweep clean.”

The call is coming amid a contract scandal that has engulfed the petroleum ministry.