{"id":176915,"date":"2025-08-30T17:28:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T16:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nnpcl-urged-to-avoid-politicizing-niger-delta-issues"},"modified":"2025-08-30T18:56:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T17:56:22","slug":"nnpcl-urged-to-avoid-politicizing-niger-delta-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nnpcl-urged-to-avoid-politicizing-niger-delta-issues","title":{"rendered":"NNPCL Urged to Avoid Politicizing Niger Delta Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Niger Delta ex-agitator Endurance Amagbein has cautioned the leadership of the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, against politicising the plight of the Niger Delta people over issues surrounding renewal of pipeline surveillance contracts with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Saturday, Amagbein condemned IYC leaders who took a protest to Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, demanding the sack of Bayo Ojulari, the Group Chief Executive Officer of NNPC Limited.<\/p>\n<p>The IYC had claimed that the protest was due to non-performance, financial mismanagement and other allegations, but Amagbein refuted the claims.<\/p>\n<p>Amagbein accused the IYC of derailing from its core mandate and delving into partisan oil surveillance politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenator Heineken Lokpobiri, the Minister of State for Petroleum (Oil); Dr Samuel Ogbuku, MD\/CEO of NDDC; and Chief Dennis Otuaru, the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, are all Ijaw people, but sadly, nobody remembers this to thank Mr President.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is so said that oil politics in the Niger Delta has infiltrated into the affairs of the IYC, and its leaders have allowed surveillance contractors to direct policy statements of the youth body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ojulari had said NNPCL is under attack over his leadership stance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Niger Delta ex-agitator Endurance Amagbein has cautioned the leadership of the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, against politicising the plight of the Niger Delta people over issues surrounding renewal of pipeline surveillance contracts with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL. 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