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My Approvals For NNPC Financing Arrangements, Not Contracts – VP Osinbajo

Farouk Mohammed
By Farouk Mohammed
Published: October 12, 2017
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday explained that the approvals he granted to the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation while he was Acting President were for financing arrangements for the Joint Ventures between the corporation and IOCs, and not approvals for contracts.

Osinbajo spoke when he was approached by reporters after the ground-breaking multi-billion naira historic Bonny-Bodo road project, in Bonny, Rivers State.

Said he: “These were financing loans. Of course, you know what the Joint Ventures are, with the lOCs, like Chevron, that had to procure.

“In some cases, NNPC and their Joint Venture partners have to secure loans and they need authorisation to secure those loans while the President was away.

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“The law actually provides for those authorisations. So I did grant two of them and those were presidential approvals, but they are specifically for financing joint ventures and they are loans not contracts,” Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media & Publicity, Office of the Vice President, said in a statement on Thursday.

Akande had tweeted on the same matter earlier Thursday thus: “In response to media inquiries on the NNPC Joint Venture financing arrangements, VP Osinbajo, as Acting President, approved the recommendations after due diligence and adherence to established procedures.

“This was, of course, necessary to deal with huge backlog of unpaid cash calls which the Buhari administration inherited, and to incentivize much needed fresh investments in the oil and gas sector.”

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