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Nigeria's Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, has apologized for some comments he made recently which generated a lot of backlash from the Nigerian public and APC leader Bola Tinubu.
Kachikwu had said Nigerians should endure the fuel scarcity situation in the country because it can't be arrested for the next two months as he is not a magician.
However, the NNPC GMD has apologized for his statement, assuring that the situation will end in the next few days.
“I do apologise if a comment I make jocularly with my friends in the press about not being a magician offends some Nigerians; it wasn’t meant to be. It is a side jocular issue and I did go ahead to explain what needed to be done. I didn’t intend to create this kind of hyperbole that it did.
“Let me admit that I am not a typically experienced politician. I am a technocrat. Some of the phraseologies that I may use, while being acceptable in the arena in which I play, obviously will not be acceptable in the public political arena. If anybody’s sensitivities were offended by that, I totally apologise.”
He spoke when he appeared before the Senate to answer questions over the current fuel crisis in the nation.
Kachikwu had said Nigerians should endure the fuel scarcity situation in the country because it can't be arrested for the next two months as he is not a magician.
However, the NNPC GMD has apologized for his statement, assuring that the situation will end in the next few days.
“I do apologise if a comment I make jocularly with my friends in the press about not being a magician offends some Nigerians; it wasn’t meant to be. It is a side jocular issue and I did go ahead to explain what needed to be done. I didn’t intend to create this kind of hyperbole that it did.
“Let me admit that I am not a typically experienced politician. I am a technocrat. Some of the phraseologies that I may use, while being acceptable in the arena in which I play, obviously will not be acceptable in the public political arena. If anybody’s sensitivities were offended by that, I totally apologise.”
He spoke when he appeared before the Senate to answer questions over the current fuel crisis in the nation.
