President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday narrated in details how one of his predecessors, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo “tolerated him” when he was the Head of State.The President, who spoke as the special guest of honour in Abeokuta at the 40th anniversary of Ogun State went down memory lane on how Obasanjo appointed him minister of petroleum and tolerated him for three and half years.
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.
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