Nigeria’s Minister for State, Petroleum Resources (Oil), Heineken Lokpobiri, on Tuesday, said the claim that he directed the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) to stop running its refineries and focus solely on equity participation in other refineries is “false”.
Mr Lokpobiri, in a statement posted on his X handle on Tuesday, made this known in reaction to a claim made by the Director of Upstream in the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Kamoru Busari.
Mr Busari, who represented the minister at a recent conference in Lagos said Mr Lokpobiri has advised the NNPC to stop running its refineries and focus solely on equity participation in other refineries.
