President Muhammadu BuhariThe Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikati Baru, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari is happy with the state of affairs in the corporation.
He said that after about two hour close door meeting he had with the President at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, today, Tuesday, the President was happy with the state of the corporation “and told us to continue with the efforts that we are doing, and if we need any executive attention, we should not hesitate to come back to him.”
The President returned to office today after a few days off to rest at his residence and met with other officials of the government including the Attorney General of the Federaton and minister of justice, Abubakar Malami.
The NNPC boss told new men shortly after the meeting with the President said that he briefed Buhari on the relative stability in the nation’s oil and gas sector in recent time and the situation of fuel supply across the country, crude oil and gas productions as well as the corporation’s ability to supply gas to the power sector.
“I briefed Mr. President on the state of the NNPC and its subsidiaries and also nationally to get him briefed on the situation of fuel supply, crude oil productions, gas production and by extension, ability to supply gas to the power sector.
“We had an extensive briefing as you could see; I passed here over two hours ago. I spent quite some time with him to discuss these national issues.”
Baru said that as a result of the peace and stability in the nation’s oil and gas sector, the nation had so far recorded two million barrels of crude oil production.
This was even as he assured Nigerians that NNPC had no plan to increase the prices of its products as being speculated. [myad]
