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Dangote has shamed many people by completing refinery – Akpabio
Aliko Dangote, chairman of the Dangote Group, has calmed doubters, according to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, by finishing the 650,000 barrels per day (bpd) petroleum refinery.
During a Saturday tour of the plant, Akpabio declared the refinery to be the ninth wonder of the world.
He gave the refinery great praise and said that Dangote should receive all the recognition for this accomplishment.
Akpabio called anybody who doubted the refinery’s completion “dream killers” and denounced them.
He claims that once the project is finished, critics of the refinery have been quieted and past administrations have been embarrassed.
“We came here and saw for ourselves that the refinery is alive and operating, despite what they told us in Abuja that the Dangote refinery is a joke.
“Many people have been shamed by Dangote. What baffles them is how one guy managed to build a 650,000bpd project when a whole country, 240 million people, and an entire continent could not achieve what this one person did.
People are constantly perplexed as to how one individual may flourish in places where entire continents and nations have failed. However, Dangote succeeded. It is really admirable.
Because the present Senate still believes in the Nigerian dream, we traveled to view the refinery.
“We came because we believe in the initiative, not because we are doubters. We come here to revive Nigerians’ optimism and spirit of can-do attitude, he said.
The billionaire and his team demonstrated that it is feasible to construct a functional refinery in Nigeria, whereas the federal government was unable to make refineries in Kaduna, Port Harcourt, and Warri operate, according to the former governor of Akwa-Ibom State.
“Because we can’t refine our own products, the Belgian government recently banned the exportation of dirty and condemned fuel to West African countries,” he continued. “The inability of the nation to refine its oil has brought untold hardship on Nigerians.”