A coalition of civil society organisations on Friday asked traducers to allow the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) Group Managing Director, Dapo Ojulari and his management have a breath of fresh air.
Addressing a press briefing in Abuja, Director General of the coalition under the aegis of Global Centre for Conscious Living Against Corruption (GCCLAC), Dr. Gabriel Nwambu declared that for several weeks now, there haa been a plethora of mudslinging against the management of NNPCL in the media by perceived traducers who mean no well for the survival of Nigeria.
Dr. Nwambu disclosed this in a statement he read at the briefing entitled: “Enough is enough: A word for NNPCL traducers”.
“In recent weeks, there has been an upsurge in negative media reportage against Nigeria’s national oil company, the NNPCL, and its senior management.
“These attacks, carefully orchestrated and coordinated by faceless groups and individuals
with nefarious intents, are to say the least, most unfortunate.
“The frightening part of this dangerous development is that these negative campaigns don’t look like they will stop anytime soon.
“Today, it is Bayo Ojulari, the Group Chief Executive Officer O; tomorrow, it is Dapo Segun, the Chief Financial Officer, and the next day, it is Udy Ntia, the Executive Vice President Upstream.
“The evil forces appeared to be unrelenting in their quest to bring the company and its management to their knees.
“The NNPC Limited and its management have seen enough: from sponsored media attacks to frivolous lawsuits, even staged protests from rented crowd based on nothing but the imaginations of the purveyors of fake news, the critics keep coming in droves.
“Apparently, some folks, both within and without are not happy with the direction the NNPC is going and
would stop at nothing to derail the process of making NNPC work for all.
” To think that some Nigerians are behind these mischievous allegations in the media, is just serendipitous.
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“The purveyors of these acts are probably oblivious of the immense damage they are doing to a company which should be our collective national treasure.
“This is a company that could best be described as the goose that lays the golden egg. This is a company that is about to be listed on the stock exchange,” he said.
Nwambu further stressed that “but one might ask: what do they stand to gain by making these
potentially damaging allegations towards one of Nigeria’s major brands and institutions?
“What is their benefit if the national oil company goes down as a result of their cynical opinions which
seem to keep discerning investors away? Where is their patriotism?
“Instead of resorting to media trial of the NNPC and its management, why won’t these individuals and groups utilise legal option to prove their cases?”
