Segun Awofadeji in Bauchi 

A political interest group, the Bauchi Legacy Legislators (BLL),  has commended the President Bola Tinubu administration for keeping to its campaign promise of continuing operations at the Kolmani Oil area and other frontiers in the North. 

The commendation came in response to the declaration by the Group Chief Executive of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Mr Bashir Bayo Ojulari, in an interview with BBC recently, that operations at the Kolmani Oil wells would soon return in earnest. 

In a statement by the leader of the group, Rt. Hon Yakubu Dogara,  the group urged the Tinubu-led federal government to make the exploitation of Kolmani Oil and Gas reserves a reality with the attendant benefits to the communities, state, region and the country in general.

In February, 2025, at the commissioning of a constituency project of Senator Shehu Buba at Toro local government area of Bauchi State, Dogara had called on the federal government to resume Kolmani Oil operations.

He also appealed to the federal government to construct the Kafin Zaki and Zungur/Bagel dams which would create thousands of jobs, boost agricultural activities and add hundreds of megawatts of electricity to the national grid. 

The Bauchi Legacy Legislators also called for the implementation of the Akwanga-Jos-Bauchi -Gombe-Yola high way amongst other laudable initiatives of the government. 

The group noted that with the actualisation of the stated projects and programmes, the support for the re-election of Tinubu for a second term, if he presented himself, was a done deal in the state and North East geopolitical zone.