How Buhari Rewarded Families Of Late Friends In New NNPC Board

President Muhammadu Buhari is quietly rewarding the friendship and solidarity of some late friends through patronage of their family members in juicy positions on the board of the new Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC.

The development came as the president constituted the board of the new Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited where family members of some of his earliest political friends were favoured.

Senator Margery Okadigbo, the widow of Dr. Chuba Okadigbo was appointed to represent the Northeast in the new NNPC board.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that Dr. Chuba Okadigbo, who served as Senate President in the Fourth Senate was also the running mate to Buhari when he made his first bid for the presidency in 2003 on the platform of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP.

Okadigbo died allegedly from harm caused during the protest against the conduct of the election.

Okadigbo became a bridge through which Buhari established some of his first political contacts with the Southeast and it was through him that the likes of Osita Okechukwu, director-general of the Voice of Nigeria, VON became Buhari’s disciples.

Another prominent nominee to the NNPC board is Barrister Constance Harry Marshal (South-South), a daughter of the late Chief Marshal Harry, who was national vice-chairman of the ANPP and was one of the earliest political friends of Buhari.

The late Chief Marshall Harry was reportedly one of the early persons to have encouraged Buhari to contest for the presidency in 2003 and served on several strategy committees to actualize the Buhari presidential project. Marshal Harry was killed in his Abuja residence in 2003 by unknown gunmen in what was believed to be an assassination.

Following his death, the family maintained personal relationship with Buhari and the appointment is expected to change the political equilibrium in Rivers State as it displaces Senator Magnus Abe, a key rival of Rotimi Amaechi from his place in the about to be dissolved board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that Buhari had in the past also rewarded Judges who ruled in his favour during his past vain efforts for the presidency with plum diplomatic posts.

The late Justice Sylvester Nsofor was 82 when he was nominated as ambassador to the United States while Justice George Oguntande was in his seventies when he was proposed as High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.

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