WHY OIL CABAL WANTS ME OUT OF JONATHAN’S CABINET -ALLISON-MADUEKWE

Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Deziani Alison-Madueke, has said that those calling for her removal from President Goodluck Jonathan’s cabinet are fighting the President because she has been very instrumental to the administration’s resolve to smash the cartel in the petroleum industry to save the country’s economy.
She maintained that, in line with the president’s directive, she created a transparent process and level playing field that had denied them the opportunity to continue ‘business as usual’ in the oil and gas sector of the economy.

According to the minister, the cabal is simply afraid of Jonathan’s reform agenda in the oil and gas sector of the economy.

Allison-Maduekwe, who took time out to make clarifications on the criticisms mounting against her nomination as a minister in the next dispensation while speaking to State House correspondents, noted that there was no going back on ongoing reforms of the sector by the President.

She said, “They are fighting the President because since assuming duties as president of this country, he has taken the uncharacteristic step to break the cartel in the petroleum sector that had almost strangulated the economy for over a decade. That is why the frenzied and sudden campaign of calumny by the cartel, all in a bid to deter me from carrying out President’s reform agenda.”

She added that never again would Nigerians and the government allow the return of the age-long cartel in the country’s oil and gas sector which, she claimed had deprived millions of Nigerians the benefits of adequate and regular supply of petroleum products across the country.

While expressing worry over the activities of those who are bent on frustrating ongoing reforms of the sector, the minister maintained that despite the unjustified criticism and unfounded allegations against her, her greatest joy since she came on board as minister of petroleum resources was that, “a vast majority of Nigerians are happy with President Jonathan for the far reaching decisions the government has taken to stabilise the sector”.
Source: Leadership