Sahara Reporters
President Muhammadu Buhari has again quoted wrong figures of Nigeria’s average crude oil revenue between 1999 and 2014 while speaking of his administration’s effort to build the economy with lean resources.
The President in the interview aired by Channels TV on Wednesday said Nigeria’s crude oil production from 1999 to 2014 averaged 2.1 million barrels per day at an average price of $100 per barrel.
“I challenge so many of you to go and check with the central bank or NNPC; the production from 1999 to 2014 was 2.1 million barrels per day average production at the average cost of $100 per barrel,” the President said in response to Channel’s Seun Okinbaloye.
Okinbaloye had asked the President: “Did you envisage the enormity of the task when you promised to tackle insecurity as the President and Commander In-Chief of our country?”
The President’s claim, which he had repeated several times in the past, was fact-checked by PREMIUM TIMES and Dubawa and found to be untrue.
In his interview with Arise TV in June 2021, President Buhari made the same false claims amongst many other repeated rhetorics and analogies that have featured in his speeches.
In an earlier interview in 2019, he had said, “This country was getting 2.1 million barrels per day and getting it out of the Nigerian territory. With a cost of, average 100 American dollars per barrel. It went up to 143 but when we came it collapsed ….”
In 2021, speaking to Arise TV journalists, who had pressed him on his government’s poor performance, Buhari had said, “I would like you to check how much…
