‘We Must Know How $3 Billion Was Spent’ – Rufai Oseni Challenges Tinubu Over Remark On NNPCL Refinery

Nigerian journalist, Rufai Oseni, has challenged President Bola Tinubu to tell Nigerians how the sum of $3 billion was spent on the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, refinery in Port Harcourt.

Oseni’s comments were said to have been made after Tinubu told the leadership of the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) during a meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja that the NNPC refinery will come back to work.

Speaking on Arise Television’s Morning Show on Friday, Rufai Oseni slammed the Tinubu government over the conflicting claims about the refinery’s revamp.

NNPCL was congratulated by Tinubu for the success of the refinery operation in 2024, but he now says it will work again. He highlighted the paradox.

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Rufai questioned the effectiveness of the $3 billion spent on the turnaround maintenance, suggesting that the money could have been wasted or mismanaged.

“I don’t want to be dramatic but Nigeria will make you mad as a human being,” he said. You’d go crazy if you tried to look at what the government does in this country.

President Tinubu congratulates NNPC for successful revamp of Port Harcourt refinery As at the 26th of September, 2024

“Now the president is saying the same refinery that he congratulated, will work again today. So it didn’t work when he offered his congratulations? They’ve made this country a joke, you see.

“Before anything, we must know how that $3 billion was spent, President Tinubu, as the father of the nation.

“You spent $3 billion on turnaround maintenance on a refinery and you said it worked in 2024, today you are saying it will work again? “No.”