Dangote Petroleum Refinery has alleged that the Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN) pressured it to raise the pump price of petrol and diesel by ₦75 per litre before agreeing to lift products from its gantry.
According to the refinery, the demand—if implemented—would push the retail price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) to as high as ₦950 per litre and Automotive Gas Oil (diesel) to about ₦1,090 per litre in parts of the country.
While Dangote offers petroleum products directly to marketers at its gantry price, DAPPMAN has reportedly insisted on taking delivery through coastal logistics, a move that would add the additional ₦75 per litre. With Nigeria’s estimated daily consumption of 40 million litres of PMS and 15 million litres of diesel, this translates into an annual extra cost of ₦1.505 trillion (₦1,505,625,000,000).
In a strongly worded statement, the refinery dismissed the request, stressing that it would neither inflate its gantry prices nor absorb the proposed subsidy burden.
“We wish to make it clear that we have no intention of increasing our gantry price to accommodate such demands, nor are we willing to pay a subsidy of over ₦1.5 trillion, a practice that historically defrauded the Federal Government for many years. DAPPMAN and other marketers are welcome to lift products directly from our gantry and benefit from our logistics-free initiative,” the refinery said.
The refinery’s stance underscores ongoing tension between oil marketers and the facility over pricing and distribution logistics, at a time when Nigerians are already grappling with rising energy costs.
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