The Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, is currently in a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Kachikwu had written to Buhari on the conduct of the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr. Maikanti Baru.
The Minister arrived the Presidential Villa at about 11.40am for the meeting.
He called on the President to intervene and “save the office of the Minister of State from further humiliation and disrespect by compelling all parastatals to submit to oversight regulatory mandate and proper supervision” which he is supposed to manage on the President’s behalf.
The meeting comes three days after a letter Dr Kachikwu wrote to the President accusing the NNPC Group Managing Director of insubordination was leaked and went viral online.
In the letter, dated August 30, Dr. Kachikwu complained to the President the NNPC boss Maikanti Baru had sidelined the NNPC board which the minister chairs among other allegations.
The minister is unhappy with the manner recent changes in the NNPC were handled and accused Dr. Baru of humiliating him and the board.
Dated a day after the NNPC announced a massive shakeup which affected 55 management staff, the Minister said it wasn’t the first time changes would be made without the Board’s input.
“It is in the spirit of service and absolute belief in your leadership and integrity that I have, after one year of tolerating these disrespectful and humiliating conducts by the GMD, decided to bring these to your attention,” the Minister wrote.
He called on the President to intervene and “save the office of the Minister of State from further humiliation and disrespect by compelling all parastatals to submit to oversight regulatory mandate and proper supervision” which he is supposed to manage on the President’s behalf.
He also called on President Buhari to “save the NNPC and the oil industry from collapse arising from the above non-transparent practices and empower the Board” to do the needful.
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pls tell the president that their are cabals holding ransomed on many decisions, if he refused then resign , to prove your not part of rotten eggs,we know lai mohammed will quickly call you names if possible blame the opposition party ,but the true of the matter is that many people in APC are using PMB to intimated some people without his knowledge , most actions taking by some executive & law inforcement agencies are without the president knowlege,he grew up a militry man and know the tactics of war, but the people who came into the party are not cincere as him, he believe that they are doing the correct thing because it is not his line of profession , the feed him with lies and are telling him so & so are your enemy, these people are playing the role of the mouth piece of the president, the kitchen cabinate must be clean of all this hynas if not PMB will go down in history as GEJ if not worse than him,thats the african system, many nigerians are innocent of all the rubish that politins are doing,90 percent nigerians now hate to hear the word politics, because it a way of making the rich richer and the poor poorer
ReplyDeleteThey will warn the man to shut up and be the servant they employed him to be or they get another one from the many available Igbo educated self haters on the market.
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