Unleased NEMI under a producing drillsite tract

Buddy, I am missing something here. If the NEMI is already leased by the executive, I don’t see where the operator’s problem comes from as there should be a lease in place stipulating a royalty that the executive was empowered to execute. If the executive did not have the right to lease the NEMI’s minerals and the NEMI must ratify, then is the executive right truly meaningful?