According to a report by Reuters, close associates of the
President revealed that he may take up the portfolio of the oil ministry.
Buhari has experience in managing the oil sector, having
been head of the Petroleum Trust Fund under an ex-military ruler, the late Gen.
Sani Abacha, in the 1990s and oil minister in the 1970s under Olusegun
Obasanjo.
A long-standing associate of Buhari, who spoke on condition
of anonymity said Nigeria’s oil sector was so dirty that nobody’s hands were
clean enough to do the “surgical changes” needed.
Another political associate was also quoted by Reuters as
saying, “He will do it. It would be stupid to give that position to anyone
else.”
Similarly, an adviser in the All Progressives Congress party
was quoted as saying: “It’s going to be a lean government; I doubt he’ll have
42 ministers like Jonathan but he must have at least 36 (for the number of
states) as prescribed by the constitution, though it does not specify whether
they have to be senior or junior.”
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