It has been revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari might have had an idea over the brouhaha happening between Kachikwu and NNPC GMD, Baru.
Ibe Kachikwu, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and President Muhammadu Buhari
Indications emerged Thursday night that the weighty allegations made by Ibe Kachikwu, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, against Maikanti Baru, Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), may not have come as a surprise to President Muhammadu Buhari,
The Independent has reported.
The report revealed that a source within the presidency said President Buhari who doubles as the substantive Minister of Petroleum gets regular briefings about activities of the NNPC, and may have been briefed of some of the developments for which Kachikwu wrote him.
According to a source, Baru is said to be a regular visitor to the Presidential Villa, hence there was no way he could have carried out those monumental contract awards and appointments in the NNPC without informing his principal, the president.
It has also been gathered that Group Managing Director of NNPC who is yet to react may have been cautioned not to say a thing over Kachikwu’s allegations.
Kachikwu had in a letter addressed to the president titled, ‘Re: Matters of Insubordination and Lack of Adherence to Due Process Perpetuated by the GMD NNPC, Dr Baru’, alleged that the oil corporation awarded $25 billion contract without following due process.
He had also alleged that the $25 billion contract was struck without consulting the office of the minister of state for petroleum resources or the board of the corporation.