Oshiomole Reveals How Akpabio’s Daughter Got Juicy Position In NNPC Without Due Process

— Akpabio, Oshiomole

By Muyiwa Akinola

Former Governor of Edo State and the Senator representing Edo North, Adams Oshiomhole, has revealed how the daughter of the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, got a juicy position in the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) without interview.

According to him, former NNPC Group Chief Executive Officer Mele Kyari facilitated the appointment of the Senate President’s daughter.

Oshiomole made the allegation while speaking on the Mic On Podcast hosted by Seun Okinbaloye.

According to Oshiomhole, information available to him suggested that the appointment was not made through the normal recruitment process.

“Myself inclusive. The second is my response to the former chief financial controller of NNPC, whose tenure the investigation covers, who pointedly said to the committee that it is you, people. And now I know that the Senate President said his daughter was taken by Mele Kyari and put in a, well, as Nigerians we say, in a juicy position that he probably didn’t merit,” he said.

Oshiomhole further alleged that nepotism had become entrenched within the national oil company, claiming that both past and present officials had facilitated employment opportunities for relatives.

“They all have employed their children, their uncles, their cousins, their in-laws into various aspects of NNPC and put them in different positions. If they carry out the payroll of NNPC, you will find that they’ve turned the top level to a family business,” he said.

The senator, however, maintained that there was nothing wrong with relatives of public officials working in the NNPC, provided they were qualified and recruited through due process.

“You can only make an issue if you give them a job they did not merit, they are not qualified for, and you didn’t follow the right procedure. Well, somebody told me that the Senate president daughter was taken without, not through a regular interview, not through the normal, but that is his own problem,” Oshiomhole said.

He also addressed criticism over the Senate’s reported disowning of the arrest warrant issued against Kyari, insisting that the legislative action was within the powers granted to the National Assembly under the Constitution.