{"id":45783,"date":"2024-08-27T17:24:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T17:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=45783"},"modified":"2024-08-27T17:24:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T17:24:30","slug":"northern-youths-demand-sack-of-nmdpra-boss-issue-ultimatum-to-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/08\/27\/northern-youths-demand-sack-of-nmdpra-boss-issue-ultimatum-to-tinubu\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Youths Demand Sack of NMDPRA Boss, Issue Ultimatum to Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Coalition of Northern Youths Organization has issued an open letter to President Bola Tinubu, demanding the immediate removal of the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), Engr. Farouk Ahmed. The coalition, through its spokesperson, Muhammed Saad Aboki, has given Ahmed a seven-day ultimatum to resign or face mass protests.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, the group accused Ahmed of several serious offenses, including economic sabotage related to the importation of petroleum products with unsafe chemical compounds, and undermining local refineries. They claim that Ahmed&#8217;s actions have contributed to the suffering of Nigerians and are in direct opposition to President Tinubu\u2019s &#8220;Renewed Hope Agenda.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The coalition has threatened to mobilize daily protests at the NMDPRA headquarters starting August 28, 2024, if their demands are not met. They argue that Ahmed&#8217;s removal is necessary to allow for an impartial investigation into the various allegations against him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coalition of Northern Youths Organization has issued an open letter to President Bola Tinubu, demanding the immediate removal of the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), Engr. Farouk Ahmed. The coalition, through its spokesperson, Muhammed Saad Aboki, has given Ahmed a seven-day ultimatum to resign or face [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":45564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45785,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45783\/revisions\/45785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}