Following criticism for bringing up the name of the NNPC executive who was accused by the FBI for accepting a bribe of $2.1 million, All Progressive Congress member Bashir Ahmad has responded. CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
After reading a report titled “FBI charges top NNPC official for taking $2.1 million bribes to help Addax Petroleum escape $2.4 billion liability to Nigeria,” Bashir Ahmad brought up the name of the NNPC employee.
Reacting to the report, he wrote on his page;
“This headline is not correct. The person involved is Paulinus Iheanacho Okoronkwo, and NNPC dismissed him due to his involvement in the scandal. Before his termination, he was a general manager in the upstream department”.
However, after he made the statement, there were mixed reactions from many of his followers online. He has now reacted after he was criticized. In a post that he shared on his official X handle on Wednesday, he said he had no idea that his post would offend a certain group of people.
He wrote;
“I had no idea that the tweet below would offend a certain group of people. The only reason I mentioned Mr. Okoronkwo’s name was to make the record straight and to clarify that he is no longer associated with NNPC, and the fraud took place in 2015, a few days before President Buhari took over”. CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
Below is the first post he made.
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