₦airaland Forum

I am sure when we condemn the president on how he has run the economy you are very glad and agree, but now you find it very hard to wrap your comprehension around his praise of reviving dead refineries. You probably speak from a vile place of tribalism, we never know these days. Can you tell us how much previous governments flushed down the drain on these very refineries, put a figure on it, before i tell you how much Tinubu has spent on the same.
We celebrate the president cause on this he has done well, now we need him to fix those things he has messes up. Nigeria would progress either the likes of you wish it or not.

IfnobeGod20:
Can you tell the world how much Tinubu pumped into revamping the refineries? The same man that you people claimed handed over dead economy was the one that pumped huge amount of money to revamp the refineries but you people are rejoicing over his results. By tomorrow you people will still lambast him for handing dead economy to Tinubu.
Or should I challenge you to tell us the amount Tinubu invested on the refineries?

HandsomeSkeleto:
Quite alright, we all know that there are packages attached to being a former President, even governors too. But the nomenclature, as stated in the spokesman response (Office of The Former President) does not exist!!!

Do you know meeting of "Council of State". It is principally gathering of the ex-presidents and head of states. It is recognised constitutionally at the federal level till they die.

profmallor:
I am sure when we condemn the president on how he has run the economy you are very glad and agree, but now you find it very hard to wrap your comprehension around his praise of reviving dead refineries. You probably speak from a vile place of tribalism, we never know these days. Can you tell us how much previous governments flushed down the drain on these very refineries, put a figure on it, before i tell you how much Tinubu has spent on the same.
We celebrate the president cause on this he has done well, now we need him to fix those things he has messes up. Nigeria would progress either the likes of you wish it or not.

Thank you for the challenge but before I give you that, I am a Yoruba man like Tinubu. How you come about your tribal colouration is what I don't know. You be need be conscious how you labelled and profiled every contrary opinion in tribal and ethnic lenses.
You guys should continue in your ethnic gymnastics and let us see the result.

Meanwhile, Buhari pumped over $25b to revamping the refineries and the link is as provided below.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/nigeria-spent-25-bln-fix-refineries-outgoing-parliament-2023-05-31/&ved=2ahUKEwj5tLOp19uKAxViYUEAHQbhAkgQFnoECBUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3Ag1Bds_dXohO9BE4XbCoF

Now, can you please reel out the amount Tinubu has invested to revamp the refineries so that the world will see it. If you people think turning around the refineries can happen in a twinkle of an eye, then you know but nothing.

I shall be waiting to read and share to people the amount Tinubu invested to revamp the refineries.

Thank you?

Elder statesman that is not elderlying, corrupt personified, 3rd term bidder that good people of Nigeria rejected, Infact, its more of an insult to Nigerians that Baba Iyabo was given an invite☹️


Nonsense!!! Next pls😏

Trust politicians @ your own peril.

Hold your Governors accountable right now and by extension your LG Chairmen that have no immunity,

Oh, before i forget this, your senators and House of Representatives members(state n federal) who also receive money for annual constituency projects

Then watch our country turn around within a year


Sensitize someone today and hold them first accountable and watch our country turn around positively within a year

You have done well, but you cant google Buharis spend and share, you started this so you must end it appropriately. The contention is OBJs bad belle, so ideally start from the dollars OBJ spend, through Yaradua, GEJ and then Buahri, that would give a true picture of the magnitude of the feat Tinubu just achieved. Now get typing.

IfnobeGod20:
Thank you for the challenge but before I give you that, I am a Yoruba man like Tinubu. How you come about your tribal colouration is what I don't know. You be need be conscious how you labelled and profiled every contrary opinion in tribal and ethnic lenses.
You guys should continue in your ethnic gymnastics and let us see the result.

Meanwhile, Buhari pumped over $25b to revamping the refineries and the link is as provided below.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/nigeria-spent-25-bln-fix-refineries-outgoing-parliament-2023-05-31/&ved=2ahUKEwj5tLOp19uKAxViYUEAHQbhAkgQFnoECBUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3Ag1Bds_dXohO9BE4XbCoF

Now, can you please reel out the amount Tinubu has invested to revamp the refineries so that the world will see it. If you people think turning around the refineries can happen in a twinkle of an eye, then you know but nothing.

I shall be waiting to read and share to people the amount Tinubu invested to revamp the refineries.

Thank you?

donmixc:
helinus is coming to attack and write incoherently as usual

Why are you shaking?

phemray:
Yes government are failures in running businesses on Thier own for sure but I think the difference between OBJ's NNPC and NNPCL now is the involvement of partnership with foreign private entities which will not allow failures. Moreso, Dangote as a running private firm will put a challenge to them not to fail. Thier operations might not be smooth at the beginning or up to the expected capacity, but I still believe they will run successfully over time.

Time will tell. I hope this will be a paradigm shift.

Looking4Trouble:
Tell us what you have run successfully in your own life

Well I do not owe you an explanation but can we start with the fact that I successfully ran 2 offshore facilities with 80k bopd installed capacity successfully for over 5 years, increasing production from the wells. I moved into drilling and successfully drilled several wells, one was one of the deepest in onshore Niger delta drilled to over 17k ft along hole; an exploratory well which led to discovery of a field with over 200 million barrels of oil in place. That field is currently producing at over 20k bopd. I ll stop there for now and if required I can go further. So, you, what have you successfully run in your life?

Nonybb:
Until MUHAMMADU BUHARI is arrested, tried and jailed, Nigeria will never punish bad behavior further. This is a man that assumed the petroleum minister and spent good 8 years without fixing the refinery. I kept asking myself what is fundamentally wrong with this country and I figure out that it is the impunity upon impunity of the political elites. Obasanjo was factored in the $16 billion electricity scam: case ended, no punishment. GEJ was factored in subsidy scam: case ended, no punishment. Buhari looted the country with an Emefiele accomplices: Emefiele undergoing trial, Buhari exonerate. NIGERIA INDEED IS A CRIME SCENE

And you think it is the efforts of less than 2 years that got the refineries working.

Dey play

Someone must always take the steps for painful foundations.

Moses let the people out of Egyptian, they wondered for 40 years in the wilderness


And Joshua came in to take the glory of leading them to the Promised Land

Karlifate:
Rest with all these chochocho


Why should they wait for "1 year" if they're confident of their handiwork

To impress you

You clearly are not a student of history! I will not join issues with you but I hope you will be humble enough to apologize when it happens. I will gladly eat my words if Government suprises me pleasantly this time but I just have my doubts!

This is how you know destructive critics. He went on air to project NNPC a lier over their claim that the refineries are working and NNPC invited him to come and see for himself as an elder statesman man and he is talking about being disrespected. Fear enemies within.

okito:
NNPC as currently structured CAN NOT run the refineries successfully. Mark my words, in a few months, something will go wrong again. I am not happy to say this but it's the way the country is wired. Government of Nigeria can not run any business effectively. The corruption and bureaucracy will eventually kill the business. You think Shell was stupid to reject the offers?
NNPC should not be in a hurry to gloat. They should at least wait for 1 year before formally inviting OBJ on a facility tour.

Enemy of progress. Always see bad things. Which word you get to.mark

Lokostar01:
you are not serious, they are inviting him because he boasted that the refineries would never worked. He should go and clear his doubt

This is not the first time that the refineries have been fixed by previous governments and eventually something still went wrong. I do hope that this time will be different because it is a win for Nigeria as a whole. However I seriously have my doubts and I strongly believe that allowing them run successfully over a period of time is expedient.

[quote author=Bosman17 post=133570652]We all know how inefficient the NNPC management are but we also know how corrupt Obj is: apparently, the so called $750m deal was with a consortium Obj has a vested interests in, and the sales of the refineries should have been supervised by the office of the VP under the act that established BPE. However, Obj sidelined his then VP (Atiku) and sold a 51% stake in PH refinery for $500m+ when it was at the time valued at $5b. When Yaradua came in to power, he saw the legal consequences brewing and with NUPENG/PENGASSAN threatening strike actions, he withdrew the sales and refunded Dangote!!!

Baba should go and rest with his antics and hypocrisy, he’s as corrupt as most of the people he accuses!!!

Spoken as their WhatsApp group approved.

Krankhead:
Enemy of progress. Always see bad things. Which word you get to.mark

The internet never forgets. I will remind you. And if I am wrong, a year from now, I will be happy to eat my words. My life is an absolute success story so I can't be an enemy of progress. I only put out my opinion based on my experience as a Nigerian and as an oil and gas professional with deep knowledge of internal workings of NNPC. Unfortunately, most people commenting here have limited knowledge.

Alhajikd:
Under the drug sniffing criminal, Nigeria has gone to the dogs

Tueh

I pity who no pity this country

Did you read the article at all? Pls how did you managed to finished school or let me say you are likely those product of quota system

These pain you put yourself through hope it doesn't end up kpai you.

Na your papa house go gone to dog.

Understandable that baba is not formally invited he too should please stop bad mouthing the refineries, because it will be bad of him to do so when he has not been to the place to really see things for himself.

We should leave politics and work together for betterment of Nigeria,if truly the refineries are working it's for the benefits of all not only for Tinubu.

okito:
The internet never forgets. I will remind you. And if I am wrong, a year from now, I will be happy to eat my words. My life is an absolute success story so I can't be an enemy of progress. I only put out my opinion based on my experience as a Nigerian and as an oil and gas professional with deep knowledge of internal workings of NNPC. Unfortunately, most people commenting here have limited knowledge.

If NNPC has not been working before, it's the people in charge that makes it not to work.
We should leave politics and work together for the betterment of Nigeria,if truly the refineries are working it's for the benefits of all not only for Tinubu.

Alhajikd:
Under the drug sniffing criminal, Nigeria has gone to the dogs

Tueh

I pity who no pity this country

Zom-+bies no get shame

Igbokid:
Much ado about nothing . He won’t get more than the open invitation he already got .
God bless Yaradua’s soul for returning Obasanjo’s Dangote’s money .
Nigeria is a crime scene.

Obasanjo is shocked someone else is doing what he thought wasn’t possible .
He should take several seats Abeg

Is it that you did not read the below stated?
Anyway, as OBJ said, when a farmer plants 100 stacks of yam and claims to have planted 200, when it is time for harvest, he will harvest 100 yams and 100 lies.

[b]On Friday, November 29, when our correspondent made his first visit, he discovered there was no activity on site as the loading bay was empty.

Workers at the refinery revealed that the facility was undergoing calibration, which might last until the following week.

After two weeks of inactivity, the Port Harcourt Refining Company reportedly resumed operations, with the NNPCL claiming that no fewer than 11 trucks had started loading from the plant.

During our reporter’s second visit to the plant on Thursday, December 19, 2024, he observed that the lifting of petrol had again stopped.

Saturday PUNCH gathered that the lifting of petrol actually stopped on Friday, December 13, as the 18-arm loading bay of the Port Harcourt refinery was empty.


A truck driver said, “It was Friday last week they loaded last. About 15 trucks or so loaded that day. Since then, not even a single truck has been loaded till now.

Asked if any explanation was given, he replied, “I don’t know. Nobody is giving us any information or telling us anything. Some trucks that were here have left. I’m just here because my director said I should wait a bit.”[/b]

Inviting Chief Obasanjo is indeed disrespectful. Baba Buhari is the person NNPCL should invite to inspect the refinery because NNPCL promised Baba Buhari that before he leaves office the refineries will be back in operation but they disappointment Baba Buhari by not fulfilling their promises, as a way of making up for failed promises they should invite Baba for the said inspection and make him happy.

Suddenly, the Afenifere Social ethnic group awoke because Obasanjo's name was mentioned ignobly in the media....what role they wanted to play in this matter....misplaced priority. I believe Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has a competent and skilled public relations assistant who can help him set the record straight....
You see, when the purpose is unknown, abuse is unavoidable. The new set of Afenifere organizations is really messing up the organization...

Some may believe that they have a duty to defend all respectable and notable Yoruba elders in society. However, there have been a number of respectable Yoruba elders who have been abused in the media in the past, and nothing has been heard from the Afenifere organization. This raises concerns about the objective of this mysterious organization, which is doing isolated defense of respected Yoruba people.
Is it sufficient to say that the name Afenifere organization has been extinct since the time of Bola ige or Abraham Adesanya, and that all we have left of Afenifere are inaccurate representations of the Yoruba race and tribes...Chief Ayo Banjo's leadership of Afenifere is a complete disaster and disgrace.

.Yoruba , Ronu

IfnobeGod20:
You people are the problem of this country.
It was the same Buhari that pumped huge amount of money into revamping the refineries, Tinubu has not spent the amount Buhari pumped into them.
Buhari government spent over $25b in revamping the refineries.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/nigeria-spent-25-bln-fix-refineries-outgoing-parliament-2023-05-31/&ved=2ahUKEwj5tLOp19uKAxViYUEAHQbhAkgQFnoECBUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3Ag1Bds_dXohO9BE4XbCoF
This news was quoted by the 9th senate in the month of May 2023.
Now, can you tell us the amount Tinubu invested in revamping the refineries?

Thanks for throwing light to this point. God bless you.

Old men criticize and never put in work, claiming they’re too old to. Anyone who takes him serious is not ready to move forward.

Aboki and "iron condemn".... So, OBJ for don sell refineries to aboki Dangote as condemn. Thank God for Yar'Adua, now I know why Tinubu almost accept his finance minister's offer.

Coming from a man who said the refinery will never work giving us false hope... Tsohon azzalumi

Ezendigbo1978:
Your father is obviously not worthy enough to clean Tinubu's shoe. If the He-goat you called fada hustle when his mate like Tinubu were hustling, your life will not be this miserable. Vent your anger on that useless thing you called fada and not on someone else.

By hustling you mean drug trafficking right?

Of course it is an insult on his person

Throwback:
It was already stated as an open invitation.

And It is Obasanjo that needs to clear his own doubt.

Baba Obasanjo brought home infested woods so he shouldn't complain of lizards visiting him.

That's what Obasanjo deserve if an elderly man behaved childishly thinking that no one can do anything better except himself.

ogododo:
https://punchng.com/refineries-rehabilitation-obasanjo-carpets-nnpcl-says-invitation-to-plants-disrespectful/

Even me self see am as disrespectful. Was meant to Mick him

mysticwarrior:
It's not disrespectful you are only feeling ashamed that you failed to do what you were supposed to do when you had all the means at your disposal to do it. Just look at the way he is making excuses for his failure.

What failure?
Do you know how much was fuel pump price during his tenure?