The Former Minister of Education, Obiageli Ezekwesili, has called on Bola Tinubu to investigate the challenges arising from Dangote Refinery.
She said the issues surrounding Dangote Refinery and revelations from Aliko Dangote showed that there are hidden things going on in the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL).
We can reasonably conclude that something seriously murky has gone on and needs to be fully revealed for public accountability and urgent attention as well.
“How can a project that by all definition attained the stature of a ‘national interest project’ be marred in this depth of embarrassing controversy that is playing out in the full glare of local and international investing community?” Ezekwesili said on Tuesday, on her X handle.
She added, was it not the Nigeria government that told us they borrowed $ 3.3 billion from AFREXIM Bank to take a stake in the Dangote refinery?
When we were in government, I dot tell the NNPCL leadership that they cannot carry on as though there is a ‘Federal Republic of the NNPC’ just because they think of themselves as ‘the goose that lays the golden egg’.”
She has called on Tinubu to direct the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) to kick off an independent auditing of Dangote Refinery and NNPCL transactions.