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Despite ongoing strike by fuel tankers union, a spokesman for Nigeria’s Dangote refinery on Tuesday assured that the country would not experience petrol shortage.
The strike commenced on Monday and has since drawn support from other unions in Nigeria and abroad, even as the refinery, the largest in Africa, is hiring its own drivers to deliver fuel to retailers.
“There is no fuel shortage, everything is going on,” a refinery spokesman, Anthony Chiejina, told AFP, adding that talks were continuing between the union, the government, and the company.
A spokesman for Nigeria’s Dangote refinery said Tuesday that the country would not see a petrol shortage despite an ongoing strike by a union representing fuel tanker drivers.
Before last year’s opening of the Dangote refinery, with a capacity of 650,000 barrels per day, Nigeria had to import almost all its petrol despite being a major oil producer.
The Dangote refinery has driven down prices of petrol for consumers while also shaking up long-entrenched players in Nigeria’s oil sector, marred by decades of corruption.
But it has also sparked monopoly fears as it becomes a powerful player backed by Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote.
Last month, the refinery was set to deploy a fleet of thousands of trucks powered by compressed natural gas to distribute its petrol nationwide, an initiative that has been delayed due to logistics issues.
