You Are Not An Engineer, Tinubu’s Aide Replies Obasanjo On PH Refinery

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has chided ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo over his comments on the petroleum refinery in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

In a recent interview with TheCable, Obasanjo had emphasised his belief that the nation’s refineries would never function efficiently as long as they remained under government ownership.

“Someone told me Tinubu said refineries would work by December. I told the person the refineries would not work. This is based on the information I received from Shell when I was president,” he had said.

But responding through Tope Ajayi, his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Tinubu said Obasanjo is not an engineer, therefore he shouldn’t make such comments.

“Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, with due respect to him, is not an engineer. He’s not the engineer working at the refineries. So, the engineers and the NNPC gave the president a report and they have said that it will work by December this year,” he had said while speaking on Daily Trust space themed: ‘Analysing the First 100 Days of President Tinubu’.

“We still have like four months to go. I will say that with all due respect to the former president, who is an elder statesman and our father, that what he said is his personal opinion and view. I will rather rely on the judgment of the engineers who are working at the refinery. So, I think we should wait until December.”

In August, President Tinubu had said the petroleum refinery in Port Harcourt will start production by December 2023 after the completion of the ongoing rehabilitation contract between the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) and Italian firm, Maire Tecnimont SpA.

The resuscitation of the refinery, if completed as promised by Tinubu, will lessen Nigeria’s reliance on oil importation and dependence on foreign refineries.


NNPCL said it has been working to revamp the refineries, which were shut down entirely in 2021 and produced little or no fuel over the past decade.

FreeStuffsNG:
The Engineers are in the best place to say the time. I agree with the Presidential aide

FreeStuffsNG:
The Engineers are in the best place to say the time. I agree with the Presidential aide.Check my signature for free stuffs!

tishbite42:
OBJ is a military engineer, albeit, a very dull one
Tinubu go show am banza shege
Make Jagaban retire that hin son wey be Brigadier
But cowards can't carry out coups sha

iammo:

Envy is a terrible thing

So Baba Obasanjo can still speak after victimizing Tinubu during campaign

Baba Obasanjo had already sold Nigerian Refinery under Privatisation, before Yaradua revert it back to FG

The question is why did Obasanjo decide to sell a refinery that was working optimally till 1999, to his friends and now claim she'll told him it isn't working
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jmoore:

Obasanjo jealous of Tinubu? OBJ was civilian president for 8 years. OBJ is very healthy.

iammo:

So why is he constantly pokenosing into Tinubu's Affiars
Can't he act as an elder and let Tinubu be
Do you see Gowon, Abdusalam and Jonathan act antagonistic like Obasanjo

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jmoore:

Refinery doesn't belong to Tinubu. It is Nigerian affair, not Tinubu affair.

Reinaldo:
Una go enjoy problem

FreeStuffsNG:


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