Niger Delta youths protest in Abuja, barricade NNPCL Towers

* Demand Ojulari’s resignation, appointment of South South indigene

A group of Niger Delta youth leaders, on Wednesday, staged a protest at the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) Towers in Abuja.

The youths reportedly arrived at the towers in their numbers from around 6am, blocking the entrance and exit gates of the NNPCL Towers.

As they marched on the streets, they carried banners with inscriptions, disrupting vehicular traffic on the Herbert Macaulay Way in the Central Business District.

On one of the displayed banners, the group called for the resignation of the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Company, Engr. Bayo Ojulari, making unsubstantiated allegation of corruption and mismanagement.

They also called for the appointment of an indigene of the Niger Delta region as the GCEO of the NNPCL.

Security agents, including police operatives, were at the scene to ensure that traffic was diverted to one lane of the dual carriageway leading to the NNPCL towers.

Workers were forced to park their cars far away from the gates of the Towers due to the protest.

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