Funsho kupolokun biography of mahatma

The Group Managing Director of NNPC since early November 2003, Kupolokun until then was a special assistant to President Obasanjo on petroleum matters for several years.

At the request of Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Kupolokun was given the top NNPC post to replace Jackson Gaius-Obaseki, with whom he had quarrels as the two men differed on several issues. Gaius-Obaseki had made enemies after he presided over the firing of 28 NNPC directors in August 2003 and exposed Nigerian traders involved in the smuggling of stolen crude oil to the Ivory Coast; and his behaviour was also the reason behind Rilwanu Lukman's resignation in October 2003.

Traders had been unhappy with NNPC's policy of setting high official selling prices (OSPs) for the state company's share of Nigerian crude oils. Kupolokun, however, has since kept the practice of NNPC setting high OSPs which has made international traders like