The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress,
Bola Tinubu, has vowed to ‘recharge’ the Lake Chad if elected president come
2023.
Tinubu made the promise on Tuesday during the inauguration
of the commercial production of crude oil and gas from the Kolmani Integrated
Development Project.
While speaking on the issue of food scarcity and terrorism,
Tinubu said “Each time we discuss the lack of food and the challenges of
terrorism, you will talk about Lake Chad.
“Let me assure you, if I am elected the president, I will
‘recharge’ Lake Chad.”
Speaking about the oil drill production which was the first
in the North, the former Lagos State governor stated that the inauguration was
a “renewed hope” for the country.
He further linked the event to his manifesto titled ‘A
Renewed Hope’.
Tinubu said, “While we were debating, I insisted that our
title for the manifesto will be ‘a renewed hope’, not knowing that today will
happen. And today, it is happening. It is a renewed hope for Nigeria.”
Located along the fields of Gombe and Bauchi, the Kolmani
project, with Oil Prospecting Licence 809 and 810, lies in the Gongola Basin of
the Upper Benue Trough, straddling the two Northern states.
The field, according to its promoters, is to start producing
about 50,000 barrels of crude oil per day and holds over one billion barrels of
crude oil reserves, shooting up Nigeria’s oil reserves to over 38 billion
barrels.
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