A large group of Niger Delta youth leaders staged a protest at the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) Towers in Abuja on Wednesday, beginning around 6 am.
The demonstrators blocked both the entrance and exit gates, causing heavy traffic disruption along Herbert Macaulay Way in the Central Business District.
According to Channels TV, the protesters, wielding banners with bold inscriptions, demanded the resignation or sack of NNPCL’s Group Chief Executive Officer, Bashir Ojulari, whom they accused of “corruption and mismanagement.”
They also insisted on the appointment of “a Niger Delta indigene as the new GCEO of the company.”
Security operatives, including officers of the Nigeria Police Force, were deployed to the scene to manage the situation and diverted traffic to one lane of the dual carriageway leading to the NNPCL Towers.
Consequently, many employees had to park their vehicles far from the premises before proceeding into the Towers.
More to follow…