The management of the Labour Party has labelled the reported ‘mechanical completion’ and the ‘flare start-off’ of the nation’s largest crude refinery in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, as a sham.
This was even because the ruling All Progressives Congress cautioned the Labour Party towards deceptive the general public, stressing that it isn’t each problem that needs to be politicised.
The improvement comes one week after the Federal Government, via the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Heineken Lokpobiri, introduced the near-completion of the Port Harcourt refinery throughout a media tour on the penultimate Thursday.
The two-unit refinery has a mixed refining capability of 210,000 barrels per day, with the previous plant having an output of 60,000 barrels per day and the brand new plant churning out 150,000 bpd.
But the management of the Labour Party thinks in any other case, insisting that it was one other ploy by the APC authorities to allegedly pull a wool over the faces of Nigerians.
In an unique chat with our correspondent, the Chief Spokesman for the Labour Party Campaign Organisation, Yunusa Tanko, claimed the occasion has it on good authority that the start-off of the plant as being reported was stage-managed.
He mentioned, “We hear that they’ve accomplished the mechanical works. This explicit fuel flare in Port Harcourt refinery is a deceit. It is one other misinform deceive the Nigerian individuals. We used to know that after we started to have fuel flaring up, some oil can be produced on the similar time.
“But on this case, there isn’t any single oil drop. That’s why we’re saying this explicit fuel flaring they’re attempting to make everybody discuss is deceit. There was nothing like that. They haven’t been in a position to work on that refinery conclusively. It is a lie.
“If they are sure about the fact, let them prove us wrong. What happened is that some people just went and switched on the power generator to start up that particular gas flaring to deceive the Nigerian people.”
Reacting to the event, Deputy National Organising Secretary of the APC, Nze Chidi Duru, appealed for understanding, saying the operation of the Port Harcourt refinery is a privately funded venture, which has nothing to do with the FG.
Duru additionally warned opposition events to all the time have interaction in constructive criticisms with a view to proffering options to the myriad issues within the nation as a substitute of searching for to attain low cost factors towards the federal government of the day.
“It (refinery) is working and useful. But it has nothing to do with the federal government as a result of it’s a personal sector-led initiative. So if the FG has made an announcement that it’s working, we’ve each purpose it is going to work. If it doesn’t work, they know it is going to injury their model, and other people might now not consider them.
“But as I said earlier, it has nothing to do with the APC government. It is Indorama Petrochemicals that is behind it and not the Federal Government. That was why I said it is not everything we should play politics with in this country. It is a private sector-led initiative,” he said.