Governor Abdullahi Sule has recanted days after he expressed
displeasure about President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval of $19 billion for
refineries maintenance.
During Channels Television’s programme Sunrise Daily, the
Nasarawa helmsman criticised the past administration for deciding to fix
multiple refineries at once.
The Nigerian government owns three refineries in Kaduna,
Port Harcourt (Rivers) and Warri (Delta), but none is yet to function at full
capacity.
Sule said the government could have fixed one but expended
the same humongous amount Aliko Dangote used to build a new refinery to service
three old ones.
“In the eight years, he (Buhari) spent more money than the
$19 billion that Dangote spent in building a refinery.
“That is one and a half times the size of our three
refineries. From the government side, I think we didn’t do a good job,” he
admitted.
In a statement on Monday by Chief Press Secretary Ibrahim
Addra, the governor denied criticising Buhari, saying he only commented on
subsidy for petroleum products.
Addra said Sule, who has decades of experience in the oil
and gas industry, spoke on the desirability of subsidy removal and “systemic
problems that have hindered the optimal functioning of refineries”.
The spokesperson said Sule was baffled by the
misrepresentation of some parts of the interview as they relate to the outgone
leader.
“The comments of the governor have been inadvertently
twisted to suggest that the governor was blaming the former President for the
woes of the nation’s refineries. That’s far from the truth”, the statement
reads.
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