Wale Edun, minister of finance and coordinating minister of the economy, says the commencement of petrol supply from the Dangote Petroleum Refinery is a resumption of Nigeria’s march to industrialisation.
Earlier today, Dangote refinery announced that the company had started loading petrol into Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited trucks.
Speaking at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery facility on Sunday, Edun said the resumption of local refining of petrol in the country marks a new beginning.
“The supply of Petroleum products, in this particular case PMS, across to the Nigerian market was failed in naira. As I’ll explain, in many ways it is the resumption of Nigeria’s march to industrialization. It is in return to something that we had before — local refinery, local supply of petroleum products in the Nigerian market,” Edun said.
“It has been decades since we have been able to achieve this, and we have it today.”
Edun thanked President Bola Ahmed…