One time untouchable Minister of Petroleum resources, Diezani Alison- Madueke is reportedly romancing the new ruling party in Nigeria, the All Progressives congress, the Scoop reported.
According to our source, the longest serving current minister who served first under the late president Umaru Musa Yaradua, and was retained by Pres. Goodluck Jonathan, has allegedly reached out to the APC leadership few days to the elections and made a donation to the APC campaign out of fear of what might happen in the event of an APC victory, which eventually was the case.
Senator Bukola Saraki who is being tipped to be the next senate president served as her point man and the minister is said to be asking for a soft landing considering the mountain of allegations against her in the course of her long tenure as minister of petroleum.
Diezani Alison-Madueke today has allegedly continued on her ‘soft landing’ lobbying with a visit to former head of state, Abdulsalam Abubakar, who has increased further in stature in the last few weeks following his role in brokering peace between the major gladiators in the presidential elections.
Alison-Madueke was alleged to have spent N10bn on a chartered Challenger 850 aircraft in two years for which the House of Representatives is currently probing her to no avail
President Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government has always rebuffed plea to probe the Petroleum Minister allegations of financial recklessness.
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