Report Until Something Happens (RUSH) by Platforms Africa on 26 days to December deadline promised by Lokpobiri Heineken, minister in charge of Nigerian oil for the completion of the Port Harcourt Refinery
In continuation of the countdown flagged off by Platforms Africa on the promised December date to complete and deliver the Port Harcourt refinery, which remained 26 days today (December 6), the focus is on how tje minister of state, Petroleum Resources (oil), Heineken Lokpobiri, promised that the Port Harcourt Refinery (PHRC) will be ready by December 2023.
Lokpobiri’s promise was contained in a release signed by Garba Deen Muhammad, the (then) Chief Corporate Communications Officer at the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited late Friday, August 25, 2023
Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mallam Mele Kyari, also assured Nigerians that the Port Harcourt Refinery was to Resume Work By December.
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Platforms Africa recalls that on November 23, the NNPCL boss said this during his meeting with the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas.
The countdown
Leading development-focused media group, Platforms Africa, has earlier flagged off a countdown on the promised-date by the Nigerian government to deliver the Port Harcourt refinery.
Team Lead of the Africa-focused group, Adeola Yusuf, who announced this in separate interviews on TVC News Nigeria and News Central TV, declared that this social service is a part of Platforms Africa’s contribution to the envisaged success on the project’s delivery.
Adeola Yusuf on News Central TV
Nigeria secured $1bn Afreximbank loans for Port Harcourt refinery’s repair and president Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (oil); Group Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mallam Mele Kyari; and the Managing Director of the Port Harcourt Refinery have all promised that the asset will be delivered by December.
“Before now, there is a trust deficit in the systemn bouyed by failed promises by government officials to deliver on certain projects or polices. This time around, everyone that matters in the Port Harcourt Refinery rehabilitation has promised Nigerians that the project will be delivered by December, 2023. As a socially responsible media group, Platforms Africa has started a countdown as our contribution to the expected success.
“The government will, through this, know that consciousness of the people has been raised and this will help tremedously to put everyone on his/her toes. This countdown, which started on Wednesday, November 29, is to continue till the last day of December,” Adeola Yusuf, said.
