The Governor of Gombe State, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya said that the state has discovered in large quantities of crude oil, stressing that there is over six billion barrels in commercially viable quantity in the state.
He explained that the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) through the Frontier Exploration Division of the agency has injected a lot of resources in the bid to find the oil in the Kolmani area.
He therefore assured that his administration will not relent in pushing for the actualisation of exploration of the already discovered oil in Kolmani area of Pindiga Emirate of Gombe State.
Inuwa Yahaya stated this at a civic reception organized in honour of the retired Acting Chief Judge of Gombe State, Hon. Justice Muazu Abdulkadir Pindiga, held at Pindiga, Akko local government area on Saturday.
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He said that he had on several occasions, visited the corporate headquarters of the NNPC and also met with President Muhammadu Buhari to interface with them on how best the state can benefit from the oil and gas deposits in the state.
The Governor then expressed optimism that the retirement of Justice Pindiga will further provide opportunity for him to continue doing more for the good of his immediate community of Pindiga Emirate, the State and the Country as a whole.
The Governor also thanked the people of Pindiga Emirate for their steadfastness in supporting his administration’s policies and programmes, assuring them that the State Government under his leadership will reciprocate the gesture by continually implementing programmes that have social and economic value to the people.
The chairman of the occasion and former Minister of Transport, Sen. Abdullahi Idris Umar thanked the governor for standing tall towards the actualization of the full oil exploration in the Kolmani of Pindiga Emirate.
He also expressed gratitude to the Emir of Pindiga for deeming it necessary to honour the retired Justice Pindiga, noting that the mammoth crowd that came to witness the reception was a pointer that the retired legal luminary is a man of the people.
In her goodwill message, former President of the Federal Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa, noted with satisfaction, the performance of Governor Yahaya within short period of his stewardship.
Bulkachuwa also congratulated the retired Justice Pindiga for successfully exiting the judiciary without blemish and thanked Pindiga Emirate for the honour done to her.
She described Justice Pindiga as an astute jurist whose hard work and dedication to the dispensation of Justice is pragmatic.
The Emir of Pindiga, Muhammad Seyoji Ahmed in his address, noted that the seeming imbroglio between Gombe and Bauchi states over the Kolmani oil field will not cause any rift between the two sister states.
(Sunday Tribune)
