{"id":65605,"date":"2025-05-12T08:23:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T08:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65605"},"modified":"2025-05-12T08:23:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T08:23:59","slug":"dangote-fires-back-at-marketers-over-fuel-supply-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/12\/dangote-fires-back-at-marketers-over-fuel-supply-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangote Fires Back at Marketers over Fuel Supply Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Aliko Dangote has rejected claims that his refinery cannot meet Nigeria\u2019s fuel needs, insisting the facility supplies far beyond local demand and exports the rest.<\/p>\n<p>In a fiery rebuttal, Dangote accused entrenched interests in the fuel import business of resisting change and misleading Nigerians about supply capacity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are producing enough to meet national needs and more,\u201d a top refinery official stated.<\/p>\n<p>Depot owners, under DAPPMAN, had alleged the refinery was underperforming and straining private marketers. But Dangote officials dismissed the claims as profit-driven propaganda by those who thrived under the old subsidy regime.<\/p>\n<p>With over 100 million litres produced daily and massive fuel reserves, Dangote insists his refinery is key to energy independence.<\/p>\n<p>Amid conflicting consumption figures from regulators, the refinery is turning to technology for real-time transparency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is more than business\u2014it\u2019s a battle for Nigeria\u2019s economic sovereignty,\u201d Dangote declared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Aliko Dangote has rejected claims that his refinery cannot meet Nigeria\u2019s fuel needs, insisting the facility supplies far beyond local demand and exports the rest. In a fiery rebuttal, Dangote accused entrenched interests in the fuel import business of resisting change and misleading Nigerians about supply capacity. \u201cWe are producing enough to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":65606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65607,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65605\/revisions\/65607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}