In what appears to be a major shift from previous claims, the Group Chief Strategy Officer, Dangote Refinery and Petrochemicals Company, Aliyu Suleiman, on Wednesday stated that 60 per cent of the crude supplied to the refinery was from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited.
He spoke at an interactive session of the Senate Ad-hoc committee on alleged sabotage in the Nigerian petroleum industry.
The position of Suleiman is a sharp contrast to that of the Group Chief Commercial Officer of Dangote Industries Limited, Rabiu A. Umar, who claimed that NNPCL has been supplying insufficient crude for its production demand.
Umar said this when he spoke with newsmen in Kano, the Kano State capital. He said NNPCL supplies only 33 percent of crude to the refinery, disclosing that it had to look elsewhere to source the remaining 67 percent to meet its production capacity.