Afrigather Civil rights advocacy teams made up of ten organisations, beneath the aegis of Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on Monday, backed the reinassertion of Senator Ifeanyi Araraume because the non-executive chairman of the Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Corporation Restricted (NNPCL). The CSOs spoke on the platform of HURIWA at a press temporarying in Abuja on Monday…..CONTINUE READING
HURIWA, in an announcement by its Nationwide Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, stated President Muhammadu Buhari should adjust to the order of Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal Excessive Courtroom in Abuja which reinstated Araraume and put aside all selections and resolutions of the board of the NNPCL made within the absence of Araraume from January 17, 2022 until date.
The group additional said that the sum of N5 billion awarded by the court docket as damages for Araraume’s wrongful removing have to be swiftly paid as a result of, they stated, going by Part 63 (3) of the Petroleum Business Act 2021 and Part 288 of Corporations and Allied Issues Act 2020, the senator can’t be eliminated within the manner he was eliminated by the president on January 17, 2022.
HURIWA carpeted the presidency for saying that the judgment of the court docket on the reinstatement of Araraume can be challenged by the NNPC after Justice Ekwo held that President Buhari acted ultra vires of his powers.
It stated Justice Ekwo held that the president’s determination to take away Araraume was unsuitableful, unlawful, null and void.
Buhari had in January 2022 dropped Araraume as NNPC board chairman, few months after he introduced him as the corporate’s chairman in September 2021. The president, in his u-turn, appointed Senator Margrey Chuba-Okadigbo, spouse of the late former President of the Senate, Dr. Chuba Okadigbo, to exchange Araraume and to signify the South-East.
Nonetheless, Araraume approached the court docket to declare his removing unlawful not after the NNPC used his identify to register NNPCL as a director and concurrently as board chairman and that such brazen act can’t stand within the face of the regulation.
The court docket, final week, dominated in favour of Araraume and reinstated him as a result of President Buhari’s motion was grossly unconstitutional.
Apart that the presidency has stated that the reinstatement can be challenged in court docket, some mushroom civil society teams sponsored by individuals offended by the reinassertion of Araraume begined a smear marketing campaign in opposition to Araraume and hinted on a protest in opposition to the judgment in Abuja subsequent week…..CONTINUE READING
