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Secondus raises fresh alarm as CJN Onnoghen’s trial begins

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, on Wednesday said that the federal Government under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari is orchestrating the destruction of democracy in the country because of the nefarious agenda of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to rig next month’s Presidential election.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Secondus, in a statement by his spokesman, Ike Abonyi, said that the President and his team are arm twisting the Code of Conduct Tribunal to force out the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen because they believe that an independent Judiciary will obstruct their rigging plan.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The National Chairman, who was reacting to the Tuesday’s court proceedings and report that Federal Government had asked the CJN to vacate office, said that the illegal provocative action has left no one including the global democracies in doubt that indeed democratic rule has been suspended in Nigeria to pave way for dictatorship.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“The blackmail, the frame up and the orchestration of fictitious figures in the CJN’s bank accounts by the government and their agents are all deliberate ploy to destroy the envious career of a man because of desperation for power</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“What they are trying to do is not only illegal but a recipe for anarchy and breakdown of rule of law and must be vehemently resisted</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The National Chairman of the main opposition party said that it’s now very glaring that President Buhari and his ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, have concluded plans to plunge this country into a major crisis in frustration for their apparent inevitable rejection by Nigerians.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">He said that trying to force the head of an arm of government out of office without following the clearly laid down procedures amounts to breach of rules and an invitation to major national crisis.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Secondus urged the CJN to disregard the directives and remain in his office as the constitution guiding the operations of government is very clear on how he can be removed.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“President Buhari’s inclination to non-democratic behavour is now apparent as he moves to muscle all other arms of government as well as ingredients of democracy.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The main opposition leader directed all lovers of democracy and rule of law in our country to wake up as it’s now obvious that APC administration is determined to wreck Nigeria’s democracy all because they are being rejected by Nigerians.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“The agenda is not hidden, which is to truncate democracy rather than face the Nigerian electorate.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">He said that the CJN should disregard the directive from the executive as it did not follow the requirement of the law</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">He said President Buhari has released his fangs on the judiciary as part of the intimidation agenda of the regime preparatory to the rigging of the 2019 Presidential election.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“Because of what they have in stock, their nefarious plans to thwart the will of the people in the forthcoming general election, they want to raise the level of the intimidation of all critical organs of democracy, the legislature, the Judiciary including but not limited to the fourth estate of the realm, the press.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“What other evidence do we need to show that threat to democracy is real and evident with President Buhari abhorring all known ingredients of democracy including rule of law”</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Secondus added that the true colour of the President is now out and Nigeria is returning to 1984 when all instruments of democracy was destroyed in the country under the supervision of the then General Buhari.</div>

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Theophilus Danjuma, former minister of defence, says the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has plans to use police and soldiers to rig the coming elections.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The retired army general made the allegation on Tuesday at the inauguration of a medical laboratory at the Rufkatu Danjuma Maternity Hospital in Takum, his hometown in Taraba state.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Describing Nigeria’s democracy as primitive, he said there is a plan to cause unrest that would make some states ungovernable in order to manipulate the elections.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“We must work hard for peace in addition to just registering and obtaining our permanent voter cards,” he said.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“There is no need to fight one another because they will use the police and soldiers to destabilise us and rig the elections.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“It is in our best interest to ensure there is peace. Those behind this plot know that they will not win elections if there is peace. I want to call on you not to sell your votes because you will be selling your birthright if you do so.”</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The US had also raised concerns over the neutrality of security agencies in the elections, starting in February.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Former President Olusegun Obasanjo had also questioned the impartiality and competence of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct a credible election.</div>

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Concerned Fulani leaders have expressed disagreement with the recent endorsement of President Muhammadu Buhari by the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, MACBAN.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The leaders said the laws guiding the affairs of the association do not allow it to dabble into partisan politics.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Chairman of the concerned Fulani leaders, Alhaji Walid Jibrin, at a press conference in Kaduna on Tuesday, said neither the executives nor the national chairman of the MACBAN can take a major decision without consulting and seeking the consent of members of the Board of Trustees and patrons of the association.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">He said, “Such decision taken recently by the association without the knowledge of the BOT and patrons and majority of registered members is anarchy and disrespect and amounts to dragging our paramount ruler into politics.”</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Jibrin who doubles as the Sarkin Fulan in Dangi Nasarawa, pointed out that the Miyetti Allah owes the Sultan of Sokoto, Emir of Kano, Emir of Katsina, Emir of Zazzau and Lamido of Adamawa apologies for being ignorant of the rules guiding the association and for not running the MACBAN for the full benefit of members.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The Sarkin Yakin Dangawa Yaan Tumaki of Katsina, also disclosed that concerned Fulani groups and Ardos and members of MACBAN who are not in support of the Miyeti Allah’s decision would soon meet to counter the stand.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“I want Nigerians to know that we have over 25 Fulani associations in Nigeria that are fully registered and over 500 categories of Fulani race living in Nigeria with even some who are unable to speak Fulfulde due to the general global changes like the current global climate change affecting the world,” he said.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Jibrin said representatives of these groups will attend the forthcoming Fulani conference and “will tell the world their stand in the forthcoming election by choosing their presidential choice who is ready to satisfy the demand of the Fulani and who will settle the feud of farmer-communities with herdsmen.”</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">He said: “I, therefore, call on the Fulani never to be deceived again by anybody no matter how highly placed. Fulani must talk with one voice among our over 6,000 voters in Nigeria. I call on Miyetti Allah not to further add fuel to the fire.”</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">He said associations “should rather be fighting for Fulani who have no land for rearing, no water ponds, no functional nomadic schools, no cattle path which are now blocked and should pave way for Fulani to live peacefully with all tribes in Nigeria.”</div>

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">President Muhammadu Buhari says he is impressed with the preparations made by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) towards the general election.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">According to a statement by Garba Shehu, spokesman of the president, Buhari made the remark while speaking on Tuesday during a meeting with the European Union Observer Mission (EOM) to Nigeria, at the state house, Abuja.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The president said he was optimistic that the electoral body would deliver a credible poll, noting that Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman, had briefed the national council of state about the commission’s plans.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The president told the EU delegation that Nigeria had grown its electoral system and it is “getting better year after year”.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“I am happy and impressed with the briefing he gave. I hope that the confidence he exuded and the intellect he brought to bear on the report will be justified at the end of the day,” he said.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“Having participated in elections four times in the past, I would say that since 2015, technology has helped the credibility of our elections.”</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Buhari said despite the different ethnic groups and religions, “patriotism demands that we identify the nation’s best interest and go with it”.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">He said the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration has the “good sense” of identifying the national interest to include security, peace and stability, improved economy, jobs creation and the campaign against corruption.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">He noted that the party is not wrong by going into the forthcoming elections with the same issues it enumerated in its campaigns in 2015.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The president thanked the delegation for taking interest in Nigeria’s elections and in the affairs of the nation.</div>

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">As reactions continue to trail the recent statement by former President Olusegun Obasanjo on the state of the nation, the Council of Progressive Yoruba Youths has apologized to Nigerians.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The youth group said the latest missive in circulation entitled “Points For Concern And Action by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo” was off-point and should be discarded in its entirety.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Speaking at a news conference in Lagos on Tuesday, the National President of the group, Kola Salawu, said Nigerians needed to forgive Obasanjo for the eight years he wasted as a civilian president and for the wrong path he set the nation on.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Salawu said the Yoruba race was deeply ashamed that a so-called elder from its ethnic stock decided to remain in a muddy gutter by penning such nauseating content.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">He claimed that Obasanjo sowed the seed for extremism that birthed terrorism.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The youth leader said, “In Yoruba land, we take pride in answering our names. Only a bastard will deny his name. In practical terms this translates into us standing by our decisions and actions, irrespective of what outcomes they produced. Where the outcomes are good our head swell with the accompanying accolades; where the results of our actions are undesirable, we accept responsibility with honour and explore how to make amends so that we remain an integral part of the society. Of course, in the ancient past, where the failing is too grievous and involves a king that remained recalcitrant the relevant powers will have to present him, with an empty calabash.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“This is a level of honour Obasanjo has never possessed and is incapable of learning. Had he such honour he would have accepted that the current insecurity he ranted is the outcome of his misrule that is only now yielding fruits. The poverty that makes it possible for terrorists, militants and separatists to gain new recruits was first instituted under his watch as president. The extremism that the nation today grapple with first surfaced under him with some states declaring Sharia rule, which was the incentive that made terrorists started demanding nationwide strict implementation Sharia.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“In the entire eight years he held office, Obasanjo was in mortal fear of being overthrown because of the unpopularity of his government. His solution to this was to destroy the military in the belief that there would be no way to plot a coup against him if there is no virile military. In addition to embarking on massive sacks and purge that deprived the military establishment of crucial institutional memory, he also ensured that the military inventory was depleted without replenishment or procurement to make sure that the military was incapacitated.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“The destruction of the military armory at Ikeja Cantonment about this time of the year in 2002 has now been confirmed to be part of Obasanjo’s desperation to de-tooth the military. A military plane crash that killed a dozen generals under Obasanjo’s watch in 2006 is equally put down to part of his obsession to gelatinize the military. He seemed to have succeeded with it.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“The taint on the military from Obasanjo’s directives for troops to disregard rules of engagement in Odi and Zak-Ibiam remains an obstacle to the military. Even when their recent and ongoing operations meet the global standards for the rules of engagement, the stain from the Obasanjo years remains a perspective from which the military is perceived. This affects the ability of the military to procure arms when they need it and the same tyrant under whose watch this happened is today playing the saint.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“In essence, Obasanjo sowed the seed for extremism that birthed terrorism. He backed this up by ensuring that the military was emasculated and unable to respond to the threat he has created. What has saved Nigeria from Obasanjo’s evil intent was the timely turnaround being witnessed under President Buhari, who has high regards for institutional memory in the military.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“The whole of Nigeria became his enemy and he has never lost on any perceived opportunity to exact vengeance on all citizens. May we refresh our memory that Obasanjo reportedly trained 1000 killer snipers abroad with the intention of using them to assassinate those who stand in the way of his ambition. These snipers formed part of the pioneer team of killers that have remained loose in the country till date.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“The outcome of that election produced Mallam Umaru Yar’Adua as president and it was a matter of months before Obasanjo started wishing him dead because he turned out not to be the stooge that Obasanjo expected. Yar’Adua’s demise paved way for Goodluck Jonathan, whom Obasanjo did much to mislead and abandoned after he incurred the anger of Nigerians pleasing the former President. If Obasanjo thought he would have a pliant President Buhari following his opposition of Jonathan he was in for a rude shock.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“If Obasanjo supported Yar’Adua and later disowned him over ill health, supported Jonathan and later disowned him for consulting others and supported Buhari and now disowning him for not bending to his wishes, then maybe it is not these president that something is wrong with. The problem is Obasanjo. He feigns support for successive presidents in the hope of being able to use them as puppets and continue as a life president while they act as the symbolic leaders. Such deviousness is not the Yoruba way because it is without honour.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“We do not want to go into the past of an Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), whom Obasanjo convinced Nigerians to be a very corrupt person. The same person God will not forgive him for forgiving. He has turned around to tell Nigerians that this is the same person to vote in the hope of acquiring a new puppet. A Yoruba elder will not be caught doing such, it amounts to being incitement, which is unbecoming of anyone that has become a grandfather.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“We apologize for the eight wasted years of Obasanjo as a civilian president and for the wrong path he set the country on, which we are now all trying to correct. We apologize for his callous thinking that had projected that Buhari would die in office. We apologize for the unbecoming tantrum he has been throwing for not having his way as a puppet master of successive presidents. We apologize to you all Nigerians because what Obasanjo is does not reflect who the Yoruba are.”</div>

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has said President Muhammadu Buhari was tired, clueless and should go and rest.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Fayose said this while reacting to report of people of Katsina State fleeing to Niger Republic due to kidnapping.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain wondered how Buhari intends to protect other states when he cannot protect his own kinsmen.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">In a tweet, Fayose wrote: “Residents of Katsina, the home State of our President are now running to Niger Republic because of insecurity.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“Can a president who cannot protect his own kinsmen protect people from other States?</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“President Buhari is tired, he doesn’t have clue to anything, he should go and rest.”</div>

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Don’t drag us into politics – NNPC warns politicians

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The Management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has called on politicians and those canvassing for votes for the general elections, to refrain from using the NNPC or its top management as part of their electioneering strategies.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, in a release today in Abuja, said using the corporation as a launchpad for political attacks against opponents was not only a disservice to the overall national interest, but also inimical to the national economy, given NNPC’s pivotal role as cash cow of the nation.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The NNPC spokesperson said the call for restrains by politicians became necessary in the wake of the names of some of its top management being dragged into partisan politics.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Mr. Ughamdu noted that as a National Oil Company with partners in almost all the continents of the world, the ongoing attempts by politicians to drag the name of the corporation into the murky arena of partisan politics was a potent danger to the corporation’s business interests, its multi-faceted contract deals and MoUs which should ordinarily be insulated from political brinkmanship.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">He explained: “While it might be understandable for politicians to seek the hearts and souls of the electorate, attempting the feat by way of dragging NNPC into the fray was unfair and irrational, as the business environment in which it operates is not designed to withstand the shock from such careless and unguarded diatribes.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“The corporation urges political office seekers to note that the NNPC was a public corporate entity run by well-groomed technocrats who are apolitical and inclined only to their fiduciary responsibility to the Governments and people of Nigeria irrespective of religion, tribe or political affiliation.”</div>