By Vivian Okejeme Abuja
A Conference of Civil Society Group for Good Governance (CSGGG), has called for positive voice to support the progress and growth of NNPC Limited under the patriotic leadership of Mele Kyari.
It said that some wolves are expending a lot of negative energies to discredit the Group Chief Executive Officer of the NNPC Limited, Mallam Kyari, in order to push him out of office and have unfettered access to seize and manipulate state resources to their personal advantage.
They group, through it’s President, Comrade Domnic Ogakwu, is reacting to a sustained unwarranted smear campaign against the landmark achievements and the continued progress of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) Limited in some section of the media.
He therefore, described the claim of “quietly awarding the control of Nigeria’s pipelines to a Northern oil cabal” is not only fallacious, figment of the writers and their sponsors’ imagination but cowardly, and begs the question.
According to him, peddling gross misinformation and unsubstantiated allegations on oil pipeline rehabilitation as well as surveillance contracts has now been adopted as a weapon of choice in the hands of these unpatriotic elements.
He maintained that the recent attempts are not new and amount to red herring when there is absolutely no need or iota of facts about the allegations.
Consequently, he sent a warning to the those hellbent to undermine the transformative leadership of President Bola Tinubu to have a rethink and stop the meaningless agitations and threats.
Explaining further, he said; “First, for those who understands contracting process and are willing to be unbiased in their judgement, to award such a contract requires tender notices in form of advertisements which were made public for qualified companies to bid.
“The process for the contracts awards, as has been the case since Mallam Kyari assumed office, remains rigorous in line with industry norms. Each bidding company has been subjected to a competitive tender selection process as guided by the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission and a transaction advisor.”
