In a new twist regarding Dangote Refinery and a claim credited to the representative of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Olufemi Soneye, that the NNPCL bought Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), commonly known as Petrol, to the oil company at N898 per liter.
Dangote denies this claim, which has caused frenzy among Nigerians, was not only misleading and mischievous but deliberately aimed at undermining the milestone achievement recorded on Sunday, September 15, 2024, towards addressing energy insufficiency and insecurity, which has bedeviled Nigeria in the past few decades.
Reports credited to Soneye claimed that NNPCL had started loading petrol from Dangote Refinery in Lagos at N898 per litre. Still, Dangote Refinery, through a statement signed by the Dangote Group’s Chief Branding and Communications Officer, Anthony Chiejina, urged Nigerians to disregard the ‘malicious statement’ and await a formal announcement on the pricing of its product.
“Our attention has been drawn to a statement attributed to NNPCL spokesperson, Mr. Olufemi Soneye, that we sell our PMS at N898 per litre to the NNPCL”
“This statement is both misleading and mischievous, deliberately aimed at undermining the milestone achievement recorded today, September 15, 2024, towards addressing energy insufficiency and insecurity, which has bedeviled the economy in the past years.
“We urge Nigerians to disregard this malicious statement and await a formal announcement on the pricing, by the Technical Sub-Committee on Naira-based crude sales to local refineries, appointed by His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR, which will commence on October 1, 2024, bearing in mind that our current stock of crude was procured in dollars.
“It should also be noted that we sold the products to NNPCL in dollars with a lot of savings against what they are currently importing. With this action, there will be petrol in every local government area of the country regardless of their remote nature,” Chiejina stated.
Dangote Group, therefore, assured Nigerians of the availability of quality petroleum products and put an end to the endemic fuel scarcity in the country.
