Allow Dangote Refinery provide relief to Nigerians – Osita Okechukwu to ‘oil cabals’

A foundation member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Osita Okechukwu, on Sunday, charged ‘cabals’ in the oil sector to allow Dangote Refinery to provide relief to Nigerians in the oil value chain.

Okechukwu was reacting to the continued face-off between Dangote Refinery and labour unions in the sector, including NUPENG, PENGASSAN, DAPMAN, IPMAN and informal actors in the oil industry.

Speaking with journalists in Abuja, the former Voice of Nigeria, VON, Director Genera submitted that instead of conspiracy, the only “valid option left to stop Dangote monopoly is for the NNPCL to revive the four refineries which had gulped over $10 million for rehabilitation, as competition cannot be in vacuum”.

He added, “One is at a loss how NNPCL that woefully failed to neither manage nor repair our four refineries and regrettably denied Nigerians the golden opportunity to own 20% in the Dangote Refinery is simulating crisis?

“Or the NUPENG and Co, that participated in mangling the refineries and had obstructed their privatisation are today conspiring against Dangote?

“For me what they are doing is mere sabotage and conspiracy against Nigerians; for the cardinal question is could there had been need for the Dangote 7th global largest refinery, if our four refineries were working?”

Okechukwu noted that instead of thanking Dangote for reduction of local prices, foreign exchange savings from stopping importation of refined PMS and other derivatives and in addition his exportation of refined products, the NNPCL and their co-conspirators are “chasing yesterday they lost”.

Allow Dangote Refinery provide relief to Nigerians – Osita Okechukwu to ‘oil cabals’