President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Thursday, held a meeting with the executives of Exxon Mobil; Mr. Liam Mallon, Mr. Richard Laing and Mrs. Adesua Dozie, at the Presidential Villa.
APC Stalwart, @DOlusegun shared photos from the meeting on Twitter on Thursday afternoon.
The pictures have garnered reactions from Nigerians with many hailing the President.
A tweep @PBAT_001 said, “Nigerian will beg PBAT in 2027 to contest again.”
@RealOluwafemi tweeted: “Nigerians something Big is already here 💙🤲” just as @idmann_mit wanted to know if Adesua Dozie is the wife of now defunct Diamond Bank.
“Is she not the wife of the guy that crumbled Diamond Bank?”
“He spoke about those during his campaign. ExxonMobil going to Guyana to invest in Gas. He said why can’t dey do it nigieria becos we have the structure already. This is my president,” @amoda_ogunlere commented.
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@dejiakintunde called the executives Tinubu’s former colleagues, tweeting: “His former colleagues!”
@SayoAdisa7296 wrote: “Jagaban deh para ….Thank God he got my vote where I for our face now ehn ???”
In March 2023, the former Governor of Lagos State and then president-elect had revealed reason for rejecting the role of a Director of Finance of ExxonMobil for Nigeria’s project.
The APC National Leader stated this when he met with Ekiti State Council of Traditional Rulers at their chambers in Ado-Ekiti.
Tinubu-accompanied by the Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Bisi Egbeyemi, and top brass of the Southwest Agenda for Tinubu 2023, led by Senator Dayo Adeyeye, said he has been on Nigeria’s project since the 70s.
He said: “I was with MKO Abiola in Social Democratic Party. I was a Senator before he came out. I was the youngest Senator of that era. I was about becoming Director of Finance of ExxonMobil, but I rejected it.
“I said I wanted to serve Nigeria. They gave me a leave of absence to go and do politics for four years and come back, but I only spent two years as a senator when the military came and terminated our tenure. I had an option, which was to go back and enjoy at ExxonMobil, but I decided that I would fight for Nigeria.
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“We believed that there must be democracy in Nigeria, there must be freedom and there must be opportunities. We joined hands with Professor Wole Soyinka, Chief Anthony Enahoro and others.”
The same month, former Mobil Executive Vice Chairman Otunba Solomon Oladunni confirmed Tinubu was employed in 1983.
Oladunni was among the senior managers, who recruited the young Bola Ahmed Tinubu, fresh from America in 1983, into the American oil giant.
Forty years later, Dr. Oladunni said Tinubu impressed the panel, made of indigenous senior staff and expatriates, during the job interview, and later revolutionized the auditing department at the giant oil company.
