Nigeria: 'Cartel Wants Me Out As Minister'

Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke said that those calling for her exclusion from the next cabinet are doing so because she has created a level playing field that has denied them the opportunity to defraud the country through the oil and gas sector.

Fielding questions from newsmen at the State House, Abuja, against the backdrop of criticism mounting against her nomination as a minister in the next dispensation, Alison-Madueke insisted that there is no going back on the ongoing reforms of the sector.

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