Oil Union Fuelling Hardship Against Nigerian – Group

The Alliance of Northern Development has condemned the caller directive by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) to chopped crude lipid and state proviso to the Dangote Refinery.

The radical accused PENGASSAN of adding to the hardship of Nigerians already suffocating nether harsh economical outcomes.

A connection by the Alliance of Northern Development chairman, Nasiru Jagaba, said the determination is not astir workers’ rights but a calculated sabotage against Nigeria’s quest for cheaper fuel, economical growth, and vigor independence.

According to the group, PENGASSAN has chosen to align with the substance importers’ cartel, which is hopeless to support its decades-long monopoly.

“These vested interests, who thrived nether the corrupt subsidy regime, fearfulness the occurrence of the Dangote Refinery due to the fact that it threatens their stranglehold connected Nigeria’s economy. “PENGASSAN is not warring for workers; they are warring for substance import cartels.

“Over 3,000 Nigerians are presently employed astatine the Dangote Refinery, with thousands much benefiting indirectly. By ordering a proviso cut, PENGASSAN is straight attacking Nigerian jobs, livelihoods, and the anticipation of reduced substance prices.

“This is thing abbreviated of economical blackmail. At a clip erstwhile Nigerians are yearning for relief, PENGASSAN has placed itself connected the broadside of profiteers and against the masses.

“Every effort to cripple Dangote Refinery is an effort to support Nigerians successful perpetual hardship. “We marque it clear: if PENGASSAN continues connected this path, Nigerians volition not hesitate to inhabit the streets successful protest. No national has the close to owe the nation’s aboriginal to a fewer selfish interests,” Nasiru stated.

The radical urged the national authorities to enactment decisively to support the Dangote Refinery and guarantee uninterrupted operations.

They called connected civilian society, labour groups, and mean citizens to defy PENGASSAN’s effort to sabotage Nigeria’s advancement and tasked the media with ” shining a airy connected this betrayal and exposing the union’s alignment with substance import cartels.”