Adesina Reveals Kyari’s Claim: Buhari Took Nothing from NNPCL

The dead never asked for a “dime” from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), according to Femi Adesina, the former Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to former President Muhammadu Buhari.
He claimed the former president had never been corrupt in his lifetime.
Mele Kyari, the former managing director of the NNPCL Group, told him this, according to the former presidential spokesperson.

Adesina said in a long piece written in memory of Buhari that the late president’s friends covered his children’s tuition.

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Even though there are hundreds of stories still to tell, Adesina says, “I have to stop.”

“How he turned down a contractor’s offer of an SUV; how he instructed Minister Babatunde Fashola to construct the Lagos/Ibadan, Enugu/Port Harcourt, Abuja-Kaduna-Kano, and Second Niger Bridge expressways; how NNPCL GMD Mele Kyari informed me that Buhari never requested a dime from the corporation, which was a gravy train for many former leaders; what the President told me following his son Yusuf’s bike accident; how his friends covered his children’s tuition; his phone conversations with Rev. Chris Okotie, Duro Onabule, and Tunji Braithwaite, in addition to others.

“President Buhari was a man of distinction and an icon.” Perfect? Not a single dude is. His bones have been buried with his inadequacies, however little they may be. He left behind excellent deeds that endure.