By: Felix Ikpotor
Following the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government and the attendant hardship faced by Nigerians, a group, the South South Youth Initiative, SSYI, has urged President Bola Tinubu to remove the Group Managing Director of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited, NNPCL, Mele Kyari.
SSYI also said Kyari should honourably resign for failing to advice the federal government on appropriate steps to be taken to cushion the effects of subsidy removal before it was done.
National President of SSYI, Saviour Oscar Imeabe who stated this in a statement issued in Port Harcourt said Kyari’s inability to appropriately advise the government is causing so much backlash.
The group said Nigerians are suffering as a result of the poor policy implementation and lack of proper advisory.
“We have truly observed the failure of this administration to bring the needed peace and development to our people. This is propelled by the existence of people like Mele Kyari, the Group Managing Director of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited, NNPCL, in public space. His failure to play an advisory role has caused serious shame and backlash on this young administration.
“Kyari has failed to make justice to his first role of advising President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on right policies to implement and at the right time to do so. We see that he lacks the understanding of what constitutes effective and corporate governance for failing to guide Mr President on the right steps to take.
“We are calling on Kyari to resign his position immediately for failing to offer good advise to Mr President. It is because of his actions and inactions that the entire country is in this present hardship. In saner climes, when a public office holder fails to carry out his functions effectively and the result of such action leads to some negative impact on the people, they willingly resign their position as a mark of remorse”, the group said.
The group also urged Kyari to apologise to Nigerians for contributing to the hardship being experienced.
However, the group said, ” should he refuse to heed to our call to resign, we are calling on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to sack him and bring in an experienced technocrat that can drive the visions of his administration in NNPCL”.
The group threatened to shutdown NNPCL offices in South-South states if Kyari is not removed.
