Tinubu Backs Niger Delta, Blasts Buhari in Powerful Statement

The National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, who doubles as the Publisher of the Nation’s Newspaper, has taken a swipe at President Muhammadu Buhari’s perceived lopsidedness, especially in the recent composition of the Board of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.
Tinubu made this known through his National Daily, the Nations Newspaper.
In the Nation’s editorial, dated July 12, with the title “Kachikwu Fate,’’ Tinubu, maintained that the deliberate removal of Ibe Kachikwu as the Group Managing Director, GMD, of the NNPC, coupled with the dominance of the “northern mafias’’ in the board, might generate into ethnic crisis.
Before now, a Niger Delta advocacy group, had argued that the removal of Kachikwu, as the GMD of the NNPC, was a disservice to the people of the oil rich region.