‘Don’t dictate next NNPCL GCEO to Tinubu’

The Sadaukin Bauchi, a veteran media consultant and public analyst, Abdulrahman Sade, has warned advocacy groups across the country to desist from urging President Bola Tinubu to appoint the Group General Manager, National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS), Bala Wunti, to succeed Mele Kyari, the Group Chief executive officer of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL).

Sade stated that the President is on top of his game regarding the Nigerian oil sector, “and he will make his decisions at the right time; therefore, we should allow the leaders of the sector to work diligently for the growth and development of the sector and the nation.”

According to Sade, Bala Wunti has been given a vital national assignment at NAPIMS, and he has been on it seamlessly. He said,

“Whatever assignment somebody like Wunti is given, no matter what organization it is, he applies all of his efforts since it is all about serving the nation and its people. This has been his watchword at NAPIMS and even at his previous positions, and he will also not desist from doing the same in the future.”

Wunti, he added, is a serious-minded and selfless son of Bauchi State; hence, they would not allow him to be portrayed as a greedy fellow.

He added, “Therefore, we should allow him to focus on his job.”
Sade said that his kinsman, Wunti, is in a cordial relationship with the GCEO of NNPCL, Kyari.

“They have been working cordially for years for the growth of the nation, contrary to the picture the advocacy groups have been painting.

“Both Kyari and Wunti have Nigeria’s growth at heart. No one is spoiling anyone’s job. Therefore, the right groups should stop overheating the polity or causing confusion.

“The team of Mele Kyari and Bala Wunti has taken the country to unprecedented heights and development through their rigorous and unalloyed efforts in the transformation of the NNPCL.”

He added that the Kyari-led team, alongside Wunti and others, has their names written in gold in the history of the Nigerian oil sector despite challenges and distractions within and outside the sector.

He said that the oil sector bosses have waded the turbulent waters with vigour and altruism.