The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) and Dangote Refinery are at odds over the price of petrol purchased from the latter.
On Monday morning, NNPC Ltd’s Chief Corporate Communications Officer, Olufemi Soneye, reaffirmed that the company acquired petrol from Dangote Refinery at ₦898 per litre.
This disclosure follows a previous statement by NNPC, which has now been disputed by the refinery.
In a response late Sunday, Dangote Refinery labelled NNPC’s claim as “misleading and mischievous.” Anthony Chiejina, the refinery’s Group Chief Branding and Communications Officer, criticized the statement as an attempt to undermine the refinery’s role in mitigating Nigeria’s energy shortages.
Chiejina urged Nigerians to disregard the “malicious statement” and await a formal pricing announcement from the Technical Sub-Committee on Naira-based crude sales, appointed by President Bola Tinubu, set to begin on October 1.
Chiejina’s statement did not…