Refinery: Oil sector cabal still frustrating us – Dangote
President of Dangote Industries Limited (DIL), Alhaji Aliko Dangote, says the “cabal” in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector is still fighting against the success of his petrochemicals project.
According to Semafor, a global news platform, Dangote disclosed this while speaking at an investor forum in Lagos at the weekend.
“For a very, very long time, those that have made a lot of money from government-subsidised oil imports into Nigeria were the ones trying to sabotage the $20 billion worth of refinery situated in Lekki, Lagos.”
“Those groups have funded resistance to the Bola Tinubu government’s removal of petrol subsidies and are opposed to the refinery operating easily in the country,” he said.
However, Dangote was confident that the battle between the 650,000 barrels per day oil refinery and petrochemicals project worth over $20 billion and the groups would be won.
“We’re fighting, and the fight is not yet finished. But I have been fighting all my life, and I am ready and 100 percent sure I will win at the end of the day,” he was quoted as saying.
Recall that Dangote in June last year raised the alarm that local and foreign mafia tried several times to sabotage his refinery from coming to fruition.
According to him, several entities did everything to sabotage the facility.
“Well, I knew that there would be a fight. But I didn’t know that the mafia in oil, they are stronger than the mafia in drugs. I can tell you that. Yes, it’s a fact. The local and foreign mafia tried several times to sabotage the refinery from coming to fruition,” he said.
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