Formal General managing director of NNPC died after a brief illness .

The  past group Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Maikanti Baru is dead.

Mele Kyari, the current GMD of the company broke the news on Twitter today , May 30, 2020

My brother, my friend and my mentor, Dr Maikanti Kachalla Baru, immediate past GMD of NNPC died late last night. He was of exemplary character and disposition. May Allah forgive him and have mercy upon him.

— Mele Kyari (@MKKyari) May 30, 2020

Also it was  reported in a statement signed by Dr. Kennie Obateru that the former GMD died on Friday Night in an indisclosed hospital in Abuja after a brief illness .

 

Press Release:

Former @NNPCgroup GMD, Baru, is Dead

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1. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (#NNPC) regrets to announce the demise of its former Group Managing Director (GMD), Dr. Maikanti Kacalla Baru, Friday night. pic.twitter.com/ZXDp7onjdS

— NNPC Group (@NNPCgroup) May 30, 2020

Dr. Baru, a consummate Mechanical Engineer, died after a brief illness, NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs, Dr. Kennie Obateru said this in a statement release earlier  today.