Kachikwu’s Memo and the Leadership Question

The letter by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, to President Muhammadu Buhari, which was leaked anonymously, raised very critical and damning allegations against the Group Managing Director of NNPC, Maikanti Baru.

These allegations are not what anyone should gloss over, especially that they are a sad reminder of an ugly past, made popular by a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, also against the corruption at NNPC. A few years after Sanusi unceremoniously left office, revelations from that corporation have so far vindicated him.

Given the nature of these allegations, all eyes are on President Buhari. The jury is still out.

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