President Muhammadu Buhari for the third time this year said he will soon inject fresh hands into the Federal Executive Council (FEC), an indication that he may drop and appoint new ministers.
The President specifically said he was working very hard to fill the vacuum created in the cabinet by Kayode Fayemi, minister of Mines and Steel Development who recent left to contest Ekiti State gubernatorial election coming up July 14, 2018.
The President, who was speaking when he received Muslim leaders who paid him the traditional Sallah homage at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Friday, singled out Fayemi for his contributions to his cabinet, saying that “we are going to work very hard to fill his space in the executive council so that we keep on exploiting more and more of our solid minerals and less politicizing of our petroleum resources”
The President had noted that the country is blessed on human and material resources, and used the occasion to eulogize former minister of mines and steel, Kayode Fayemi, who he said “has been a very hardworking minister, because the ministry he was leading was neglected with the overbearing economic relevance of oil”
“But from the days of mining of tin, columbite, coal and so on, you know this country is blessed. Throughout the country, we have solid minerals and I am hoping that Fayemi will succeed to lead again his state. I believe he is a very hardworking person, very patriotic but Nigerian politics is virtually unpredictable”
President Muhammadu Buhari again lampooned Nigeria’s past leaders for wasting the nation’s resources, even as he advised Nigerians to shun “ sectionalism and individualism”
The President recalled the massive resources accumulated when crude sold for as high as 143 USD said the country would have done better if the resources were prudently managed