Disquiet as Kachikwu accuses NNPC GMD of insubordination

A letter currently circulating like wide fire on Twitter and other social media handles has indicated that the Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, and the Group Managing Director, Nigeria National Petroleum Commission, Maikanti Baru, are at daggers drawn over allegations of insubordination.

In the letter dated August 30, but which emerged on the Internet on Tuesday, Kachikwu was said to have writen President Muhammadu Buhari, asking that he urgently intervene on matters ranging from alleged illegal practices to insubordination of the NNPC GMD.

According to the letter, the minister claimed that he saw it was necessary he let Buhari understand his misgivings as such was capable of hindering progress in the country’s petroleum sector or even reverse recorded strides.

He said in the letter, “Parastatals in the ministry and all CEOs of these parastatals must be aligned with the policy drive of the ministry to allow the sector register the growth that has eluded it for many years. To do otherwise or to exempt any of the parastatals would be to emplace a stunted growth for the industry.”

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Kachikwu further explained that the August 30 letter he wrote President was done after rigorous efforts to have a one-on-one appointment with Buhari at the State House did not fall through.

Although it was not yet clear how the letter made its way to the public domain, a part of it added that Baru made Kachikwu suffered “disrespectful and humiliating conducts.”

The authenticity of the letter is still uncertain as there was no acknowledgement of it from either Kachikwu or Baru’s side as at the time of filing this report.

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