The Nationwide President of the Impartial Petroleum Entrepreneurs Affiliation of Nigeria, Abubakar Maigandi, has queried the declare by the President of the Dangote Group, Alike Dangote, that the 650,000 barrels per day refinery at present has 500m litres of premium motor spirit, often known as petrol in inventory for onward provide to Nigerians.
Maigandi mentioned it’s because its members drafted in by Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Firm Restricted to choose up merchandise on its behalf, couldn’t load petrol from the Refinery in Lagos for 4 days.
He additionally acknowledged that oil entrepreneurs haven’t been capable of decide merchandise from the refinery regardless of having paid N40bn to the NNPCL.
Maigandi mentioned this when he appeared on ChannelsTv Dawn Every day on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, Dangote urged petroleum entrepreneurs, together with the Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Firm Restricted, to supply petrol straight from his refinery to fulfill native demand.
He acknowledged that the refinery can produce over 30 million litres of gasoline day by day at full capability and at present holds 500 million litres in reserve, sufficient to provide the nation for over 12 days with out imports.
He confirmed the refinery’s readiness to provide gasoline after closed-door talks with President Bola Tinubu on the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja.
“We’re greater than prepared,” Dangote assured State Home Correspondents, including that the refinery’s manufacturing capability may offset Nigeria’s gasoline wants considerably.
“It’s not a difficulty as a result of, as we converse at the moment, we’ve 500 million litres, you already know, in our tanks. So 500 million litres in our tanks even when there’s no manufacturing from anyone or no imports. This can take the nation greater than 12 days, you already know, with no imports, with no manufacturing, nothing,” he added.
The IPMAN chief, reacting to this, expressed shock that the refinery at present possesses a inventory of gasoline merchandise enough to fulfill the nation’s wants for a full 12 days.
He additionally expressed shock that the proprietor of the $20bn refinery mentioned entrepreneurs have been boycotting his refinery to purchase imported petrol.
Maigandi mentioned, “If he (Dangote) can have the ability to promote the product to us straight, we will purchase the product as a result of we’ve to pay earlier than we decide. Presently, we’ve N40bn beneath the NNPCL custody however we can’t supply the product.
“Only recently, there are a few of my entrepreneurs that NNPCL despatched to load in Dangote refinery, and people entrepreneurs stayed with their vehicles for 4 days, and so they can’t load. So I used to be stunned when Dangote mentioned he has over 500 million litres of PMS. We’re prepared to purchase the product from Dangote if he is able to promote it to us straight.”
The IPMAN chief acknowledged that as a substitute of sourcing Dangote petrol via the NNPCL, the non-public refinery ought to straight register unbiased petrol entrepreneurs to facilitate smoother loading of the product.