Adeyemi Adegbola: NNPC: Cheap shots, phantom claims, and a nation in need of foreign investment

Senator Adams Oshiomhole, clearly, has an axe to grind with NNPC Ltd. The erstwhile labour leader, who was erstwhile a inferior staffer successful a textile mill, present sits successful the Senate. From that perch, helium has declared the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited “a clump of criminals and thieves.” To ticker the video clip from the 10 June 2026 league of the Senate Public Accounts Committee is to witnesser a deficiency of logic and decency. It is singular that helium present stands earlier the federation to impugn the integrity of an instauration staffed by the precise professionals helium erstwhile claimed to correspond arsenic a national leader. Could this beryllium an contented of inferiority complex? 

But for the involvement of decorum, fto america simply authorities the facts: the Senate, arsenic an institution, has formally dissociated itself from Oshiomhole’s outburst. On Thursday, 11 June 2026, the precocious legislative chamber, done a question sponsored by Senate Leader Opeyemi Bamidele, condemned the remarks arsenic “an unwarranted onslaught connected the quality of nationalist officers”. The Senate declared that the remarks “do not correspond the authoritative position, resolution, uncovering oregon determination of the Senate arsenic an institution”. High ranking legislators, including Deputy Senate President Barau Jibrin and Senate Minority Leader, Abba Moro, cautioned the erstwhile Edo State politician against “making defamatory remarks that could undermine the integrity of nationalist institutions.”

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