By Wuraola OyedokunÂ
Dr. Femi Aborisade is a labour lawyer, former lecturer at the Department of Business Administration and Management, The Polytechnic, Ibadan; consultant to many oil unions , and human rights activist.
In a chat with Optimal Times News, the social crusader said former President Muhammadu Buhari’s pre-2015 election campaigns vision is still relevant to addressing the perennial problems in the oil sector.
He called for the repeal of the Petroleum Industry Act [PIA] to tackle fuel crises, saying the Act is nothing but a neoliberal piece of legislation to rob the wealth that belongs to all Nigerians.
Aborisade said: “Former President Muhammadu Buhari, in his pre-2015 election campaigns addressed the question of how the government should handle public refineries. I agree with his standpoint. Former President Muhammadu Buhari campaigned on the programme of ensuring that existing public refineries would be revamped and new ones built to refine crude oil, not only to satisfy the domestic market but to also export. Unfortunately, former President Muhammadu Buhari could not implement his pre-2015 election vision throughout his tenure as President for 8 years, from May 2015 to May 2023. It appeared that the hands of former President Muhammadu Buhari were tied by big business in the oil industry”.