A unit radical successful the South-East, Ohanaeze Think Tank, has declared that those down the calls for the removal of the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, are aft President Bola Tinubu.
President Tinubu is the Minister of Petroleum Resources.
In a connection connected Monday by Dr Azubuike Ajuluchukwu and Dr Cletus Akinyili, the Coordinator and the Deputy Coordinator, respectively successful Enugu, the Ohanaeze radical said specified targeted attempts against the President would not work.
It maintained that the activities of the disbanded Ugochinyere-led committee investigating the NNPCL should besides beryllium probed.
While hailing the House for disbanding the committee, the radical said: “It’s heartening that aft a nationalist outcry, the House of Representatives yet dissolved the alleged committee that was expected to analyse the allegations against the Group CEO of the NNPCL, Mele Kyari, by the radical of 15 members of the House.
“But the substance should not extremity there. That committee of 15-man led by Rep. Ikenga Ugochinyere indispensable besides beryllium investigated.”
They added that, “But for the swift involution of astir 120 members of the House, immoderate persons were poised to enforce their sinister docket connected the House and the Nigerian public.
“What is their involvement successful the Dangote Refinery? We align ourselves with the views of ‘1 Agenda’ that the calls for Kyari’s removal are hypocritical.
“He deserves commendation for his enactment and translation of NNPC Ltd, expanding crude lipid accumulation from 800,000 bpd to 1.6 cardinal bpd.
“We person each crushed to fishy that the calls for Kyari’s removal are targeted astatine the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the petroleum minister.
“We, therefore, telephone connected the House not to halt the dissolution of the ad-hoc committee but to besides analyse the behaviour of immoderate of the members.”
Call for Kyari’s removal targeted astatine Tinubu – Ohanaeze Think Tank