{"id":8134,"date":"2025-08-06T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=8134"},"modified":"2025-08-06T22:58:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T22:58:59","slug":"efcc-speaks-on-olukoyede-abducting-nnpcl-boss-ojulari-demands-public-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2025\/08\/06\/efcc-speaks-on-olukoyede-abducting-nnpcl-boss-ojulari-demands-public-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"EFCC Speaks On Olukoyede Abducting NNPCL Boss, Ojulari, Demands Public Apology"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has categorically denied reports that its chairman, Ola Olukoyede, abducted the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Ltd (NNPCL) and forced him to sign a resignation letter.<\/h3>\n

The EFCC in a statement on Wednesday, said the report from People\u2019s Gazette on the purported incident is false and also demanded a retraction of the story and a public apology within 48 hours.<\/p>\n

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The anti-graft agency stated that the platform published a sensational and poorly sourced story, claiming\u00a0that Olukoyede and the Director General of the Department of State Security (DSS),\u00a0Adeola Ajayi<\/strong>, pressured Ojulari to sign a resignation letter.<\/p>\n

The EFCC noted that its Chairman, through his lawyer, in a letter addressed to the Editor of Peoples Gazette, described the reports as uncharitable and capable of tarnishing his image.<\/p>\n

The agency added that failure to retract and apologise for the story will attract further legal procedures.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgainst the furore generated by an unsubstantiated report by an online portal, People\u2019s Gazette alleging that the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ola Olukoyede \u201cabducted the head of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Ltd\u2026 and forcing him to resign at a secret rendezvous in Abuja\u201d, the EFCC\u2019s boss has demanded a retraction of the story and public apology within 48 hours.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cPeople\u2019s Gazette, had, on Saturday, August 2, 2025, carried a sensational and poorly-sourced story that Olukoyede and Adeola Ajayi, Director General of the Department of State Security, DSS, pressured Bayo Ojulari, GCEO of NNPCL, to sign a resignation letter.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIn the fairy tale concocted by the medium, insinuations were also made that \u201c Ojulari was repeatedly questioned about what he might know of Olatimbo Ayinde, a British-Nigerian oil businesswoman who has recently emerged as one of the most powerful forces steering the Tinubu Administration\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIn a follow-up story, the online news portal went on to state that \u201c officials said Mr. Ojulari was summoned to the Presidential Villa, where First Lady Remi Tinubu insisted his resignation wouldn\u2019t be accepted. The security chiefs who coerced Mr. Ojulari into the resignation letter had been acting on the order of Olatimbo Ayinde, Mr Tinubu\u2019s paramour, whose growing influence in the administration has recently raised alarm\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

Oluoyede described the reports as uncharitable and capable of casting him in the mould of someone who has \u201c betrayed and subverted public trust by submitting the authority of his public office and trust as Chairman of the EFCC to the dictates and directives of one Olatimbo Ayinde,<\/em>\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n

Olukoyede stressed that \u201cthe publications and the imputations conveyed by them are so damning and cannot be ignored or treated with levity\u201d. He, therefore, demanded that the medium \u201cacknowledge your wrongdoing, expressly admit that what you published and imputed against my client are false, apologise for it unreservedly and retract and pull down the stories from your newspaper website and social media handles.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Additionally, Olukoyede\u2019s lawyer warned that any failure of compliance with his instructions would result in the issuance of a\u00a0\u201cWrit in the tort of defamation to allow you to prove what your disparagement of my client\u2019s character and reputation, especially in the way of the office he holds as Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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