Court Awards N5bn Against President Buhari Over Sack Of Ararume As NNPCL Boss

Senator Ifeanyi Ararume was today restored as the non-executive Chairman of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL.

He was restored by Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court, Abuja, who set aside his removal by President Muhammadu Buhari on January 17, 2023.

It would be recalled that Ararume had dragged President Buhari before the court, praying it to declare his removal as the NNPCL chief illegal, unlawful and unconstitutional and that it was a total breach of CAMA law under which the NNPCL was incorporated.

Furthermore, he asked the judge to issue an order to return him to office and also demanded N100 billion as compensation for the damages he suffered nationally and internationally.

In her judgment, Justice Ekwo voided Ararume’s sacking and awarded N5bn as damages against Buhari and the NNPCL, to be paid for the disruption of Ararume’s appointment on the grounds that the action of the President was arbitrary, unlawful, and illegal.

The judge directed that Ararume be immediately restored to office as the non-executive chairman of the NNPCL.

The judge also declared as null and void all decisions of the Board of Directors of the NNPCL carried out in the absence of Ararume.

Justice Ekwo held that Buhari acted ultra vires, wrongful, illegal, null, and void in the ways and manners Ararume was sacked after using his name to register the NNPCL and that such an act could not stand in the face of the law.

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