{"id":70943,"date":"2025-07-18T12:48:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T12:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70943"},"modified":"2025-07-18T12:48:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T12:48:17","slug":"refinery-sale-without-audit-after-2-8bn-waste-is-criminal-adc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/18\/refinery-sale-without-audit-after-2-8bn-waste-is-criminal-adc\/","title":{"rendered":"Refinery Sale Without Audit After $2.8bn Waste Is Criminal -ADC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The African Democratic Congress (ADC), has condemned the Federal Government\u2019s plan to sell Nigeria\u2019s refineries without a forensic audit, calling it \u201ccriminal\u201d and a betrayal of public trust.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Friday, the party said over $2.8 billion was spent on turnaround maintenance of the Port Harcourt, Warri, and Kaduna refineries in the past 15 years, with little or no improvement.<\/p>\n<p>It described the planned sale as an attempt to conceal corruption and mismanagement, insisting that a detailed audit must be made public before any sale occurs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSelling the refineries without auditing who mismanaged the billions amounts to shielding fraudsters and denying Nigerians justice,\u201d the ADC said.<\/p>\n<p>The party urged the government to suspend the privatisation, publish audit reports, and prosecute those responsible for the waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; The African Democratic Congress (ADC), has condemned the Federal Government\u2019s plan to sell Nigeria\u2019s refineries without a forensic audit, calling it \u201ccriminal\u201d and a betrayal of public trust. In a statement on Friday, the party said over $2.8 billion was spent on turnaround maintenance of the Port Harcourt, Warri, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":70944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1720,172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70943","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70945,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70943\/revisions\/70945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}