PANEP rallies support for Dangote refinery, cautions economic saboteurs

 PANEP rallies support for Dangote refinery, cautions economic saboteurs



Refinery 

By Ifeanyi Olannye 


Asaba, Oct. 9, 2025(NAN) The Partners for National Economic Progress (PANEP), a Non-Governmental Organisation has on Thursday in Asaba, Delta protested against saboteurs of Dangote refinery.


At a rally with the theme, "National Unity Against Sabotage: Reclaiming Our Petroleum Sector for the People", the conveners noted that the rally was aimed at ending economic sabotage in Nigeria and to save Dangote refinery.


The conveners of the rally are Comrades,  Igwe Ude-umanta, Danesi Momoh, Olayinka Dada, Olamide Odumosu, Omaga E. Daniel, Jabir Maiturari, Solomon Adodo, Adeyeye Olugbenga, Jide Wolimoh and Fisayo Olubayo


Addressing newsmen at the rally, Danesi Momoh,  said was aimed at strengthening the campaign for local oil refining in Nigeria, sequel to the Abuja Independence Rally of Oct. 2, and the Kaduna Rally of Oct. 6, this year on the subject matters.


He said: This is a powerful movement of the people to demand freedom from a heartless unpatriotic cartel that has held the country down. Their reign is over.


"This has become evident, the Nigerian people have risen to this very important and urgent occasion of national economic salvation by rooting out all manifestations of the Nigerian oil cartel, whether in the forms of PENGASSAN, NUPENG, DAPPMAN, PETROAN or Government Agencies.


"These people and their agents are public enemies, with PENGASSAN which has shown the ugliest face as public enemy number one. 


"We, therefore, declare Festus Osifo a persona non grata in all the public spaces of the 774 Local Government Areas in Nigeria. 


"There will no longer be any space for him and his cohorts to operate and no way for them to hide their monstrous faces."


He said that all the group and 

PENGASSAN may have gotten away with their crimes of economic sabotage and terrorism, because the Security Agencies have not considered the option on putting them behind bars.


He urged them to stop fort with any act of sabotaging the nation's economy, adding that any such move by them or their allies would be met with the severest citizens' counter mass action.


According  to Momoh, no group is bigger than this country.


He described the actions of PENGASSAN and it's allies against Dangote refinery as an act of gross economic sabotage and terrorism.


"We thank PENGASSAN for being frustrated enough to commit the crime they did some days ago, because it has awoken Nigerians to the reality of the subterranean and even open war against Dangote Refinery and the local refining project.


"Citizens have therefore risen up in defence of not only Dangote Refinery but other investors in the oil sector and other areas. 


"We are no longer asleep in the manner we were when public refineries and other sectors were killed. This sabotage will never succeed.


"These people must leave the Dangote Refinery alone. The business space is wide. They should find their own spaces," the spokesperson said. 


He noted that Dangote Refinery has faced too many fights that nobody could pretend that there was no orchestrated attack on the business. 


Momoh asked: "When did it become a crime to invest and to do so patriotically?


"There are no longer spaces or opportunities for indifference and pretences. 


"We have to take a side for the Nigerian economic prosperity, the sound economic logic in favour of this economic prosperity, and therefore, a firm stand against saboteurs.


"This Asaba rally is a reinforcement of our stand that their will no longer be oxygen for saboteurs of form or manifestation. 


"We cannot let the gains of massive employment, huge revenue for government crash of petroleum products prices to be threatened by anybody or group."


He lauded President Bola Tinubu for supporting local refining and had urged the use government instruments against sabotage and ensure constant crude supply to local refineries at a fair price.


He called on all Nigerians to join the

 liberation movement to ensure the independence  of the oil sector even as the Nigeria marks her 65th independence (NAN)(www.nannews.ng).

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