President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday sacked the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Andrew Yakubu. The Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity), Reuben Abati, said in a statement that a replacement, Joseph Dawha, was appointed to take over from him immediately. Mr. Abati also said the President also approved the appointment of Anthony Muoneke as the Managing Director, Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, more than five months after the seat became vacant.
Mr. Yakubu, who was appointed in July 2012, succeeded the former
GMD, Austen Oniwon. After his assumption of office, Mr. Yakubu was said to have
worked to maintain the production capacity at an average level of about 2.3
million barrels per day despite the challenges of pipeline vandalism.
Now question is why was he sacked?
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