Tom Ikimi, has accused a national leader of the the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, of having secretly met with Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, to seal a mega oil deal on behalf of Oando, a company he is rumoured to have ties with.
He revealed this in his letter of resignation to the APC, though using pronouns, instead of out rightly mentioning a name.
According to Ikimi, who is a former External Affairs Minister, Tinubu met with, Mrs. Alison-Madueke, at the Abuja home of the PDP national chairman, Alhaji Adamu Mua’azu , a day to the APC national convention.
ConocoPhillips, an American company, had reached an agreement with Oando two years ago for the Nigerian company to take over its interest in the upstream oil and gas operations, however, the mega deal had been stalled for a while allegedly by the federal government for political reasons, but was approved shortly before the convention in what is now being interpreted as a 2015 “tactical manoeuvre” by President Goodluck Jonathan.
In the letter he asked: “Who by the way is the buyer? Is it the PDP Government that opened its doors once more recently to one of the APC foremost boastful and noisy leader to consummate a mega oil deal on the eve of that controversial APC convention? Who then is really selling and who is indeed buying?”
