Sade Appeals For Caution As Calls For Wunti’s Appointment as NNPCL GMD Intensify

From Paul Orude Bauchi

A veteran media consultant and public analyst , Abdulrahman Sade, has reacted to calls on the Presidency to appoint the Group General Manager, National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS), Bala Wunti to succeed Mele Kyari,

There have been numerous calls from rights and advocacy groups across the country calling on President Bola Tinubu to appoint Wunti the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), to succeed Kyari.

In a statement on Friday in Abuja, Dr. Sade said that the President is on top of his game as it concerns the Nigerian oil sector and called for caution.

Sade Appeals For Caution As Calls For Appointment of Wunti As (NNPCL) Gather Momentum

“He will make his decisions at the right time; therefore, we should allow the leaders of the sector to work diligently for the growth and development of the sector and the nation,” he advised 

According to Sade, Bala Wunti his kinsman, has been given a vital national assignment at NAPIMS and “he has been on it seamlessly.”

“Whatever assignment somebody like Wunti is given, no matter what organization it is, he applies all of his efforts, since it is all about serving the nation and its people. This has been his watchword at NAPIMS and even at his previous positions, and he will also not desist from doing the same in the future”

He described Wunti as a serious minded and selfless son of Bauchi State hence should not allow his being portrayed as greedy fellow. “Therefore, we should allow him to focus on his job.”

Sade, said Wunti  has a cordial relationship with GMD of NNPCL, Mele Kyari. 

“They have been working cordially for years for the growth of the nation, contrary to the picture the advocacy groups have been painting,” he stated.

“Both Kyari and Wunti have Nigeria’s growth at heart. No one is spoiling anyone’s job. Therefore, the right groups should stop overheating the polity or causing confusion.

“The team of Mele Kyari and Bala Wunti has taken the country to an unprecedented height and development through their rigorous and unalloyed efforts in the transformation of the NNPCL.”

He added the  Kyari led team alongside Wunti and others and have their names written in gold in the history of the Nigerian oil sector despite challenges and distractions within and outside the sector.

He said that the two oil sector bosses have wadded the turbulent waters with vigour and altruism

 It could be recalled that one of the greatest income and remittance to the Nation’s coffers came from the NNP