The Executive vice president of the Nigerian junior Oriental Energy Resources (OER), Ameena Indimi has been sacked.
Indimi who is the daughter of Muhammadu Indimi, Oriental Energy Resources (OER) founder and main shareholder was reportedly sacked following her decision to fire several senior staff members without her father’s consent.
THE CAPITAL reports that Ameena laid off the company managing director and former Addax Petroleum executive, Ignatius Ifelayo, as well as several of her father’s personal financial advisors, including Michael Hailu.
Fondly called Yakata, she is regarded as the most troublesome of the popular daughters of the business mogul. She is the wife of Mohammed, first son of ex-Minister of Power and Steel, Alhaji Bashir Dalhatu, who died in a power bike accident.
Recall that Ameena raised a storm during the traditional introduction ceremony of her brother, Ahmed and President Buhari’s daughter, Zahra. She had insisted on taking her mobile phone into the Presidential Villa in Aso Rock, Abuja, contrary to security protocol to record all the proceedings, including the delivery of the boxes made by the French luxury brand, Louis Vuitton, with her mobile phone.
Meanwhile, the company chairman, with help from his trusted lieutenant, board member Goni Musa Sheikh, has reportedly been in direct contact with Ifelayo to negotiate his return to the company as soon as possible.
OER operates with a very few permanent managers and hands over the management of its finances and technical matters to former executives of the now folded junior Afren. This is the case of OER’s commercial director, Patrick Cherlet, and of Samiullah Sardar (former financial controller with Afren) and Ricardo Ramirez de Arellano. The latter two work for OER via the consultancy firm Houston Exploration And Production Services.
THE CAPITAL notes that one of OER’s strengths is its founder’s extensive network. With the enviable position of being an in-law to Nigeria’s president, the group stands in good stead to increase its asset portfolio during the next bidding round which should put several marginal fields up for offer after the elections in February 2019.