Buhari, Reps on collision path over unbundling of NNPC

President Buhari’s approval of the unbundling of NNPC may set him on a collision path with the House of Representatives. The leadership of the House yesterday, condemned the planned unbundling of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, as proposed by the Minister of State for Petroleum and Group Managing Director of the corporation, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, this week without following the constitutional process.

Rather than act unconstitutional journey, the House wants the President to send an executive bill to the National Assembly if he had the intentions to split the oil corporation or effect fundamental restructuring or reforms in the oil and gas sector.

Presided over by the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, the House, therefore mandated the Committees on Petroleum Upstream, Petroleum Downstream, Gas and Local Content and Legislative Compliance to ensure that Kachikwu was prevented from usurping the functions of the National Assembly and desecrating the Constitution of Nigeria by not allowing him legislate for the National Assembly in the unbundling of NNPC.

The resolutions of the House followed the motion sponsored by Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe representing Ogoja/Yala Federal Constituency of Cross River State on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and entitled, “Urgent need to investigate acts of procedural breach by the GMD of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.”

Jarigbe argued that having been created by an Act of Parliament the NNPC Act or any part thereof could only be altered, changed or otherwise amended only by an Act of the National Assembly.

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