The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has asserted that Nigerians did not elect President Muhammadu Buhari to give them excuses.
Mohammed made this assertion on Friday, while in Adamawa State as part of the presidential entourage led by the Vice President Prof. Yemi Osibanjo, attending the wedding of the son of the Adamawa state Governor, Sen. Mohammed Jibrilla Bindow.
The minister reassured Nigerians that the ongoing nationwide fuel crisis would soon be over.
“Yes, we appreciate the feelings of Nigerians. We also go through it, because we are not immune to it. As a responsible government, a government that was propelled to power by the votes of the people, we cannot give excuses but empathise with them. And this government is working 24 hours to ensure that this problem is resolved,” Mohammed said.
The minister who said Nigerians did not elect them to give them excuses however stressed that the All Progressive Congress led administration as a responsible government was doing everything to ease the current suffering resulting from fuel scarcity.
He said the federal government was working to ensure that in two weeks time the commodity was made available in all parts of the country and alleviate the sufferings of Nigerians.
According to him, the government had already taken some steps in that direction.
He said, “some short term, some medium term and some longer term, because the question will be what are we doing to alleviate this problem, because that is what concern Nigerians.”
Some of the measures he highlighted included the government’s appeal to oil majors to make forex available to their companies operating in the downstream sector of the oil industry, adding that the difficulties encountered in getting foreign exchange was partly to blame for the fuel crisis.
He added that once the government got this done it would solve the problem of the fuel hiccups.
