Araba Kayode.
The Arewa Intelligentsia Caucus (AIS), a Northern Socio-political group has asked President Tinubu to prevail and checkmate the excesses of NNPCL Executive Vice President, Upstream operations, Mrs Oritsemeyiwa Eyesan against the lay down procedures.
And the group in a strongly worded petition issued on Tuesday and jointly signed by the President, Abubakar Chiroma and Publicity Secretary, Nasir Adamu, frowned on the linkage of the President’s wife, Senator Oluremi Tinubu to the excessive show of power by the NNPCL top management staff, Mrs Oritsemeyiwa Eyesan.
Therefore the leadership of the group maintained that, because of the dogged stance of the Nigeria’s first lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu on the issue of gender balance, the likes of Mrs Eyesan had abused the opportunity by engaging in so many untoward activities in the oil regulatory body.
Aside the President’s wife, the group also accused the Executive Vice President (Upstream Operations) of lobbying top Yoruba leaders with connection to Mr. President to prevail on him to approve the removal of Mele Kyari and install her as GCEO also she no longer takes directives from GCEO. She sees herself as over and above him.
“Mr. President must navigate round the treacherous tide to avoid heating the polity. The North will resist any unceremonious displacement of the serving GCEO, Mallam Kyari. He must be allowed to serve out his full term”, the Arewa group fumed.
According to the body, her excesses and unbecoming attitude is capable of eroding corporate governance, introduce recalcitrant attitudes in a wholly corporate organization that had adhered strictly to corporate governance over five decades.
“Eyesan’s boastful and the provoked attitudes towards the GCEO had threatened to use her connection to truncate the tenure of Mele Kolo Kyari, even though, the position was not zoned to the South South, but North East under the federal arrangement.
“Her insistence and impression of becoming the next GCEO of NNPCL, already in the public knowledge is hinged on the current relocation of some departments of CBN and FAAN to Lagos, stating and assuring people that similar decisions will occur in NNPCL in no distance time”.
The Arewa Intelligentsia Caucus warned on the consequences of allowing Mrs. Eyesan remaining in the current position, as it is capable of eroding the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Tinubu’s administration.
