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Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer, NNPCL, Mele Kyari
The Arewa Youth Assembly has stated that the protest against the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Company Limited, Mele Kyari, is baseless and sponsored.
The Speaker of the Arewa Youth Assembly, Mohammed Salihu Danlami made the call in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja.
PUNCH Online reports that some protesters, led by Civil Society Organisations, had stormed the NNPC Ltd. Headquarters, in Abuja demanding Kyari’s resignation over issues surrounding fuel distribution and skyrocketing prices.
However, Danlami stated that the sponsors of the protest are envious of the gigantic reforms and restructuring in the NNPC brought by Kyari.
He also urged President Bola Tinubu to urgently intervene and put an end to the attacks against Kyari.
The statement read, “These attacks are sponsored, perfectly planned and orchestrated by insiders, some senior members of the management staff who are desperate to take over the GCEO’S position.
“They are actually envious of the gigantic reforms and restructuring brought by Mele Kyari. So they are fighting back, it is always normal for corruption to fight back.
“Driven by their selfish and unpatriotic desires, they have used all known tactics to cast aspersions on the person of the GCEO, they have sponsored media campaigns, slander, blackmail and have gone as far as organising protests against the GCEO.
“To this effect, we plead with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to urgently intervene and put an end to these senseless and baseless attacks. They are impacting negatively on the GCEO, distracting him from the ongoing reforms and because of the importance and centrality of the NNPCL to the economy of this country, these attacks are also injurious to the economic reforms and restructuring of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as well as to the Promise of renewed hope agenda.”
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