Nigeria’s Minister of State Petroleum Resource/NNPC GMD, Ibe Kachikwu Speaking in an interview on BBC World Service programme, HardTalk, on Monday said he will quit the government if he fails to deliver on the promise to end fuel importation in Nigeria by 2019.

He vowed he would deliver on the refineries and that he was committed to also deliver a future for oil that makes sense for Nigeria.

When asked by the programme anchor when Nigeria was going to be self-sufficient in terms of refining petroleum, he declared emphatically:

‘’I have stated it, 2019 is the target.

The minister said he has been able to get the refineries back to begin to produce 7 million litres of petroleum product compared to zero previously since he took office one-and-half year ago,.

“I have delivered on everything since I came to office. First, I took NNPC and moved them into a profit making organization first time in history and reshaped the organization. I removed cash call deficit of over $6bn, negotiated it. Everything that I have promised since coming into office, I have delivered. I will deliver on the refineries and I am committed to that and I will also deliver a future for oil that makes sense for Nigeria,” he said.

BBC pointed out to him that he running out of time because 2019 is around the corner but he was not perturbed, saying.

‘’Don’t worry; I put the date, I will work it’’.

BBC: And if you don’t achieve it, you will walk (away)?

Kachikwu: Yes! Of course that is the reason why you are in government.