PENGASSAN Strike Reckless, Says SDP Chair Gabam

The nationalist president of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Alhaji Shehu Musa Gabam, has described the nationwide onslaught declared by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) arsenic reckless, self-serving, and a sabotage of Nigeria’s economy.

Gabam said the union’s determination to unopen down the lipid and state sector, singling retired the Dangote Refinery arsenic a target, was a sedate misstep that could unleash wide hardship connected mean Nigerians.

He said, “This declaration by PENGASSAN is thing abbreviated of sabotage against the Nigerian people.

“By ordering members to retreat services and crippling the Dangote Refinery, the national is putting livelihoods astatine risk, threatening substance supply, and exposing the state to terms shocks and instability.”

He warned that the phased shutdown of operations would inevitably pb to scarcity, higher pump prices, and disruptions to businesses and households already nether economical strain.

Gabam argued that the onslaught was little astir genuine workers’ payment and much astir narrow, self-serving interests.

“Nigerians indispensable defy immoderate effort to clasp the state hostage,” helium said. “Targeting the Dangote Refinery shows this enactment is not astir fairness but undermining advancement successful the lipid and state sector. The authorities indispensable basal steadfast and garbage to beryllium blackmailed into granting concessions that wounded the nation.”

Expressing solidarity with the national government, the SDP president reaffirmed his enactment for policies to stabilise the system and guarantee vigor security.

“I basal with the Nigerian authorities successful its thrust for maturation and development,” Gabam said. “Our system cannot spend to beryllium derailed by selfish interests. Nigerians indispensable stay vigilant, united, and focused connected progress.”

His remarks rise concerns astir the concern action’s broader impact. If the onslaught persists, determination are fears of substance scarcity, inflationary pressure, and disruptions crossed captious sectors.