President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed details on his relationship with former president Olusegun when the latter was the Head of State.
President Buhari on Tuesday recounted how one of his predecessors,
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo “tolerated him” when he was the Head of State.
Daily Post reports that President Buhari, who spoke in Abeokuta,
the Ogun state capital, as the special guest at the 40th anniversary of
the state, went down memory lane on how Obasanjo appointed him minister
of Petroleum and tolerated him for three and half years.
According to him, “I express my thanks to General Obasanjo,
who, as head of state, made me minister of Petroleum and tolerated me
for three-and-half-years.
“He tolerated me because God knows and he knows that I am not
used to working as hard as he used to, but he allowed me to last that
long and allowed me to work.
“If you go into records, that government made so much
investment and infrastructural development in the petroleum industry.
Two refineries were built, Warri and Kaduna. More than 20 depots were
built; more than 3,500 pipelines were laid; and we were exporting
refined products of 100,000 barrels per day.
“But what do we have today?” Buhari asked rhetorically.
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