Buhari only President not to interfere in NNPC operations, Kyari claims On By Obas Esiedesa The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mallam Mele Kyari, has singled out President Muhammadu Buhari for praise, claiming that he is the only president not to have interfered in the running of the corporation. Kyari, in a statement on Tuesday by NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Dr. Kennie Obateru, said the current management “was so privileged to have a President who never interfered in what the NNPC does as a corporation”. He spoke in Sokoto while delivering the Usman Danfodiyo University’s 2021 First Quarter Public Lecture Series titled, “Navigating Energy Transition and the Imperatives of University-Industry Collaboration.”