A Nigerian lawyer, Festus Ogun, has sued President Muhammadu Buhari over the pain and agony Nigerians experienced as a result of the recent fuel scarcity.
In series of tweets on Monday, April 25, Ogun blamed Buhari’s double role as President and Petroleum Minister as the cause of the “gross inefficiency and mismanagement in the Petroleum Sector, that led to the fuel scarcity”.
According to the human rights activist, he dragged President Buhari before the Federal High Court in Lagos State over “the excessive pain, hardship and agony Nigerians went through as a result of the fuel scarcity experienced earlier this year.”
He argued that Buhari’s continuous service as Nigeria’s Petroleum Minister and Chief Executive is unconstitutional and illegal.
Read his tweets below:
“BREAKING: I have just filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari at the Federal High Court in Lagos over the excessive pain, hardship, and agony Nigerians went through as a result of the fuel scarcity experienced earlier this year.
“I solemnly believe that the gross inefficiency and mismanagement in the Petroleum Sector, that led to the fuel scarcity, is avoidable if the President was not holding the dual position of Petroleum Minister in violation of Section 138 of the 1999 Constitution.
“I believe that the President’s continuous serving as Petroleum Minister is not only illegal and unconstitutional, it is inimical to our economic growth and likely to occasion future scarcity and inefficiency that will affect the country and its good people.
“I make bold to say that it is practically and legally impossible for the President to hold his elected position, which comes with enormous responsibilities, contemporaneously with the position of Petroleum Minister. It has no basis in law, logic, and politics.
“If Nigerians suffered that heavily during the fuel scarcity, the President must be answerable for it. There must be consequences. And as a citizen of this country, I believe we must avert a reoccurrence; whether under this regime or in future administrations. God bless Nigeria.”
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