Atiku rejects FG’s OPL 245 dispute resolution claim, warns against NNPCL JV asset sale

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has dismissed the Federal Government’s assertion that the protracted OPL 245 quality has been settled, maintaining that the lawsuit is inactive earlier the courts.

In a connection connected Sunday, Atiku described the assertion by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s medication arsenic misleading, pointing to a pre-action announcement issued by Malabu Oil arsenic impervious that the quality remains unresolved.

He warned that excluding a large stakeholder from the process raises superior owed process concerns, noting that respective related cases are inactive pending earlier the Supreme Court and the Federal High Court.

Atiku said it was “troubling” that Malabu, a cardinal stakeholder, “was neither consulted nor progressive successful immoderate purported dialog oregon colony process,” adding that sidelining captious parties reflects “recklessness” alternatively than strength.

He besides expressed interest implicit reports that up to 30 percent of Nigeria’s Joint Venture assets nether the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited could beryllium sold.

Describing the reports arsenic alarming, Atiku warned that immoderate specified determination without transparency would magnitude to “the quiescent auctioning of Nigeria’s future.”

He called connected manufacture groups, including Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN and Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, to enactment alert and defy what helium termed ...