NNPC GMD: I Need Yours Prayers, Not Paid Congratulatory Messages

 The newly appointed Group Managing Director (GMD) of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu has told friends and well wishers that he need their prayers and not paid advertisements in the media congratulating him over his appointment.

In a Friday statement by Mr. Ohi Alegbe, the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the NNPC in Abuja, the GMD was quoted as saying that the appointment was “a serious national assignment that does not require the frivolity of congratulatory adverts and the celebration people want to associate with it.

“The GMD will prefer that friends and well-wishers support him with their prayers for divine guidance to carry out the onerous task ahead,” the statement said.