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| Confusion "Breaki Bone!" Constitutionally-ignorant Buhari dissolved NNPC board that was already dissolved. |
Day by day General Muhammadu Buhari commits one blunder to the other. When he is not referring to Western Germany he is purportedly dissolving Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) board.
In his latest showmanship act, Buhari yesterday announced the dissolution of the NNPC board. However it has emerged that going by the Petroleum Act, the board stood dissolved the moment Jonathan's Administration ended. This is a blatant demonstration of Buhari's decrepit mind bereft of any knowledge of Nigeria's laws - except sharia ones of course.
Some members of the ex President Goodluck Jonathan's administration who spoke with Sahara Reporters stated that Buhari was out of order by dissolving the board of the NNPC, contending that, according to the “Petroleum Act,” the board stood dissolved the moment erstwhile Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, left office.
Two members of Mr. Jonathan administration, who spoke on condition of anonymity intimated that there was no reason for President Buhari to send a letter to the board of the NNPC to dissolve. “That act [Buhari’s dissolution of the NNPC board] is null since there was no board in place after the former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, left office,” said one of the sources.
Mrs. Alison-Madueke, who constituted the current NNPC board, officially lost her cabinet position on May 29, 2015 when former President Jonathan’s tenure ended.
With Buhari committing such legal and constitutional blunder you wonder what his legal team is doing, especially his vice who is supposedly a professor of law.
In a related development a second source, who served on the disbanded board, claimed that Mr. Jonathan’s administration left $5 billion in the kitty for the incoming Buhari government. He said the funds were yielded by dividends from Nigeria’s sales of liquefied natural gas.
Last weekend, Babs Omotowa, the chief executive of the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Company (NLNG), claimed that the company paid $1.6 billion in dividends to the Buhari government. However, one of the two sources claimed that said the amount was $5 billion. He added that President Buhari was either hiding the correct amount paid to his government in order to justify his claim of inheriting “an empty treasury” or that the NLNG was playing a game on Nigerians.
The NLNG is a joint venture between the Nigerian government and multinational oil companies.
Last weekend, Babs Omotowa, the chief executive of the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Company (NLNG), claimed that the company paid $1.6 billion in dividends to the Buhari government. However, one of the two sources claimed that said the amount was $5 billion. He added that President Buhari was either hiding the correct amount paid to his government in order to justify his claim of inheriting “an empty treasury” or that the NLNG was playing a game on Nigerians.
The NLNG is a joint venture between the Nigerian government and multinational oil companies.
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