There appears no respite for the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Bayo Ojulari as those bent on ensuring that he’s removed from office have stepped up their plan.
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In the latest plan to ensure that he exits the NNPCL as the chief executive officer, a group, the Renewed Hope Interest Defenders has called for his immediate resignation from office. If he fails to resign his position voluntarily, the APC group called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to sack him will immediate effect.
The group made the demand at a press conference on Wednesday in Abuja, the nation’s capital saying the NNPCL chief executive is working against the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Tinubu for the oil sector and the company.
Its demands for the Ojulari comes less than a month after reports that President Tinubu has sacked him, for working with those considered to be opposition politicians in the country.
The magazine reports that the last few weeks have witnessed protests and counter protests for and against Ojulari, by some civil society groups in the country.
According to the group, Ojulari’s sins include his decision to shut down the Port Harcourt Refinery; allegedly spending millions of dollars to organize a management retreat in Kigali, Rwanda, lavishing government funds on foreign trips, spending huge funds to hire private jets, among others.
Calling on President Tinubu to end his tenure as NNPLC chief executive, the group said “we will not want Ojulari to remain the GMD of NNPCL”
Recall that Peoples Gazette had last month detailed, in a report, how Ojulari was forced to resign his position by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and the Department of State Services, DSS after he was allegedly abducted by the agencies.
The newspaper had claimed that Ojulari was seized and pressured to sign a resignation letter by Ola Olukoyede, chairman of anti-graft EFCC, and Adeola Ajayi, director-general of the State Security Service.
The incident, on newspaper claimed was narrated by sources familiar with the matter, with some of them describing the operation as a coup d’état because President Bola Tinubu did not sanction it.
Officials said Ojulari was repeatedly questioned about what he might know of Olatimbo Ayinde, a British-Nigerian oil businesswoman who has recently emerged as one of the most powerful forces steering the Tinubu administration.
“Mr Ojulari told us he didn’t know Olatimbo Ayinde,” an official said under anonymity to disclose the matter to The Gazette. “He also said he heard she was trying to control businesses at NNPC and he rejected such moves.”
Ms Ayinde, long known in business circles for her wheeling and dealing, was charged in the United Kingdom for bribing two former Nigerian oil ministers. The Gazette reported on Thursday that anti-graft operatives were ordered to slow-walk and frustrate a request for evidence from British prosecutors for use in their ongoing trial of Ms Ayinde.
Ojulari was appointed in early April by Mr Tinubu, with the Nigerian president saying the decision was largely due to Mr Ojulari’s expertise in hydrocarbon as a former Shell executive in Nigeria.
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