Dangote: Nigeria greater than PENGASSAN – Shettima

By Obas Esiedesa, Abuja

The Federal Government connected Monday emphasised the captious value of the 650,000-barrel-per-day Dangote Refinery, declaring that it indispensable beryllium supported astatine each costs to succeed.

The government’s presumption was stated by Vice President Shettima and emphasised by Minister of Budget and National Planning Senator Bagudu astatine the opening of the Nigerian Economic Summit 2025 successful Abuja.

The authorities said the $20 cardinal installation is simply a nationalist plus that indispensable beryllium supported to function.

Following past week’s concern enactment by lipid workers nether the aegis of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, Vice President Kashim Shettima declared that Nigeria is greater than PENGASSAN.

He said, “Aliko Dangote, he’s not an individual, he’s an institution, and he’s a starring airy successful Nigeria’s economical parliament. And however we dainty this man volition find however outsiders volition justice us. If helium had invested $10 cardinal successful Microsoft, successful Amazon, oregon successful Google, helium astir apt mightiness beryllium worthy $70 to $80 cardinal by now.

“But helium opted to put successful his country, and we beryllium it to aboriginal generations to jealously protect, promote, preserve, and support the interests of this large Nigeria.

“I privation to telephone for caution, retrospection, and a deeper consciousness of patriotism from some labour and the organised backstage assemblage successful defining and improving the narration betwixt labour and manufacture successful the involvement of maintaining our steadily improving economical fortunes. It’s not astir holding the full federation to ransom due to the fact that of a insignificant labour dispute.

“Nigeria is greater than PENGASSAN. Nigeria is greater than each and each 1 of us. I’m not coming to you arsenic a partisan.”

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