Niger Delta Youths label Lokpobri-led IYC’s call for Ojulari’s sack, an aberration

Youths of Niger Delta, under the aegis of Host Communities Producing Oil, Gas and Pipeline Impacted States’ Youth Council of Nigeria, HOSTCONYCN, have labelled call for the sack of the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, Engr. Bashir Bayo Ojulari, by the Jonathan Lokpobri led Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, as an aberration.

The youths, who converged in Abuja, Friday August 29, with banners bearing inscriptions such as “Hostcon youth council say no to fake Niger Delta youth leaders”, Jonathan and his cotravelers are all corrupt and failed Niger Delta people with political interest”, “Jonathan Lokpobri is an imposter”, “Jonathan Lokpobri is corrupt”, “Jonathan Lokpobri was paid to destabilize the Nigerian oil sector”, “Engr. Bayo Ojulari a competent and transparent man with clean track record in the oil and gas sector”, “Thank you, Engr. Bayo Ojulari for reposition and sanitizing the nation oil and sector”, “Thank you, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the appointment of Engr. Bayo Ojulari, a competent and transparent man”, “Host communities producing oil and gas and pipeline imparted states youth council of Nigeria stand with Engr. Bayo Ojulari, the GMD NNPC Limited” and “Engr. Bayo Ojulari has remitted over 20 trillion to the federal government within just four months”, urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to disregard Jonathan Lokpobri and his co-travellers.

National President of Host Communities Producing Oil, Gas and Pipeline Impacted States’ Youth Council of Nigeria, Comrade Emmanuel Fiawei Pathfinder, who addressed newsmen in Warri, Delta State, same time an enlarged press briefing/anti-Jonathan Lokpobri counter protest was ongoing at Abuja, averred that the call for Engr. Ojulari’s axe, was uncalled for, emphasizing that Niger Delta youths are totally against the “Kangaroo protest” staged Wednesday in the Federal Capital Territory.

Comrade Emmanuel Fiawei Pathfinder, briefing newsmen

Comr. Fiawei Pathfinder, asserted: “That call for him (Engr. Ojulari) to be removed and replaced is uncalled for, it is an aberration. Nigerians are totally against it and we can never be in support of it.

“We are calling on Mr. President to disregard that call in totality, because we know that Engr. Bayo Ojulari, is transforming, sanitizing and restructuring the system.

“It took us as a shock that youths from the Niger Delta region, would be gathered and be sponsored or paid to ambush or destabilize the current administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Renewed Hope Agenda, that is hitting the ground running. We all know where we were coming from, before President Bola Ahmed Tinubu took charge and the reforms are glaring, both in the oil and gas sector, Agricultural sector and other sectors.

“For us, host communities producing oil and gas, as youths of the region, as interface and speaking on behalf of the NNPCL and IOCs, we condemn in totality the protest that was arranged, calling for the removal and sack of Engr. Bashir Bayo Ojulari. Engr. Bashir Bayo Ojulari, was appointed by President Tinubu, barely three months ago and he has hit the ground running.

“This is the first time we are seeing a GMD of NNPCL coming up with monthly update of the revenue profit, being shown to Nigerians, we have seen the transformation that he’s doing.

“Under the leadership of Bayo Ojulari, NNPCL has remitted more than 20 trillion to the federation account. Before he assumed office in less than four months, production was not more than 1.3mbpd, but when he came, he did everything humanly possible in collaboration with the host communities, Tantita Security Services, Pipeline Infrastructure Nigeria Limited and with the strong synergy with the law enforcement agencies, to hit the ground running. He is doing something differently and today we are seeing the result and our production, has increased from where it was to 1.8 to 2mbpd.”

The National Secretary, Host Communities Producing Oil, Gas and Pipeline Impacted States’ Youth Council of Nigeria, Dr. AK Etta Peters, while speaking to newsmen in Abuja, stated that the roadmap of President Bola Tinubu's Renewed Hope Agenda, has fully gained traction and yielding positive result in the Oil and Gas industry.

Dr. Peters, noted: “It is sad that even in the midst of obvious humongous successes in this industry, members of the opposition coalition, have tried to paint the NNPCL black.

“We the members of the Host Communities Producing Oil Gas and Pipeline Impacted States Youth Council of Nigeria are in complete harmony with the Coalition of Niger Delta Ethnic Nationalities Youth Council in condemning the rascality of the Ijaw Youth Council as the handiwork of disgruntled and frustrated kleptomaniac bureaucrats, who have planted themselves in the NNPCL and have institutionalized corruption. This is a clear case of ‘if you fight corruption, corruption will fight back’.

“In the guise of claiming to be saints, these devilish criminals want to change the new order in NNPCL because it does not favour them.

“Let it be known that the Niger Delta region has over 140 ethnic nationalities and just one of these numerous ethnic groups is too infinitesimal, insignificant and too minute to represent the generality of the 139 majority ethnic nationalities of the Niger Delta.

“Today as always, we rise in unison including the majority faction of the IYC to Pass a Vote of Confidence on the GCEO of NNPCL, Bayo OJULARI and solidly stand by him and his transformational leadership and anti corruption posture in the Towers.

“Let those who think they can continue looting the common wealth of Nigeria deposited in the Niger Delta, face us and we will tell the world who they are working for.

“We like the way the Petroleum Industry Act is being implemented by the Bola Tinubu administration and we want these reforms to be properly entrenched for the benefit of our Niger Delta Ethnic nationalities.”

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