Fani-Kayode Chastises Peddlers Of Negative Plots Against Port Harcourt Refinery

… Canvases Supports For NNPC Ltd, PH Refinery

Former aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has chastised those expressing negative comments and pessimistic dispositions against the resurrected Port Harcourt refinery, cautioning that they cannot succeed in muscling their way into petroleum sector for the mere selfish purpose of creating monopoly.

Instead, he maintained that credit must be given to President Bola Tinubu and the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd), Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) Mele Kyari, for reviving the refinery after many years of inactivity.

In a post Thursday on his verified X handle @realFFK, Fani-Kayode, noted that some elements in the private sector who are new in the field are doing all they can to undermine and understate this great victory for Nigeria.

He however, warned that oil business is unlike other businesses of selling sugar, cement, among others.

According to him, “The resurrection of the PH refinery is one of the most encouraging things that has happened in the petroleum sector for many years and the credit for this must go to the the President and the GMD of NNPC.

” It is a pity that some elements in the private sector who are new in the field are doing all they can to undermine and understate this great victory for Nigeria.

“The oil business is not the same as selling sugar, spaghetti, cement or rice and no matter how hard you try you cannot muscle your way and create a monopoly on the sale of refined products as you did for other commodities over the years.

“NNPC will go from strength to strength and once its other refineries are working as well Nigerians will have cause to smile again. Let the new kid on the block flourish but let the NNPC refineries flourish too. That should be our goal and not a squalid attempt to discredit NNPC and its leadership.

“Every optimistic and true lover of Nigeria’s progress and President Tinubu’s renewed hope agenda must be proud of the GMD Mele Kyari. His tenacity, bravery, ingenuity and forthrightness has been rewarded with this great feat. Surely this is hope renewed for Nigerians.
(FFK)”