I Didn’t Force Ojulari To Resign As NNPC GCEO -EFCC Boss

The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr.
Ola Olukoyede has demanded a retraction of the report by an online newspaper alleging he “abducted the head of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Ltd… and forcing him to resign at a secret rendezvous in Abuja.”

Olukoyede also demanded public apology over the report within 48 hours.

People’s Gazette had, on Saturday, August 2, 2025 carried a sensational story that Olukoyede and Adeola Ajayi, Director General of the Department of State Security, DSS, pressured Bayo Ojulari, GCEO of NNPCL to sign a resignation letter.

In the report described by Olukoyede as “fairy tale,” the medium stated that ” Ojulari was repeatedly questioned about what he might know of Olatimbo Ayinde, a British-Nigerian oil businesswoman who has recently emerged as one of the most powerful forces steering the Tinubu Administration”

In a follow-up story, the online news portal went on to state that
” officials said Ojulari was summoned to the Presidential Villa, where First Lady Remi Tinubu insisted his resignation wouldn’t be accepted.

“The security chiefs who coerced Ojulari into the resignation letter had been acting on the order of Olatimbo Ayinde, Mr Tinubu’s paramour, whose growing influence in the administration has recently raised alarm”.

Oluoyede described the reports as uncharitable and capable of casting him in the mould of someone that has ” betrayed and subverted public trust by submitting the authority of his public office and trust as Chairman of the EFCC to the dictates and directives of one Olatimbo Ayinde”.

I Didn’t Force Ojulari To Resign As NNPC GCEO -EFCC Boss is first published on The Whistler Newspaper