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The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria has said the commencement of direct sales of Dangote’s Premium Motor Spirit (Petrol) to its members will crash the price of fuel in the country in the coming days.
The IPMAN secured an agreement with Dangote Petroleum Refinery to lift products directly.
IPMAN’s National President, Abubakar Garima, announced this at a press briefing on Monday in Abuja, following a meeting of the National Working Committee of the association.
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He explained that the Dangote refinery had obliged IPMAN to lift PMS, AGO and DPK directly for onward supply to IPMAN depots and retail outlets. This new arrangement with the Dangote refinery would ensure a steady and ceaseless supply of PMS products all over Nigeria at an affordable rate.
He said, “Following our recent meeting with Alhaji Aliko Dangote and members of his top management staff in Lagos, we are happy to state the following; Dangote Refinery has obliged IPMAN to lift PMS, AGO and DPK directly for onward supply to IPMAN depots and retail outlets. That this new arrangement with the Dangote refinery will ensure a steady and ceaseless supply of PMS products all over Nigeria, at an affordable rate for Nigerians also.”
On October 29, the founder of Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote, said the refinery held over 500 million litres of petrol, but added that oil marketers were not buying his product.
In a counter-response, IPMAN said its members had been unable to load petrol from the Dangote refinery for days. Garima said the association paid N40bn to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, but still cannot source the product – but the refinery said it has not received any payment from the IPMAN for refined petroleum products.
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Speaking on the deal’s impact, the National Secretary of IPMAN, James Tor, explained that Nigerians will experience a drastic reduction in the price of petrol and a boost in the products’ availability nationwide.
According to him, the agreement would make the pump price of petrol at Independent marketers’ retail outlets drop below N1,150 per litre.
“If the business agreement kicks off, you will see a drastic reduction in the price of gasoline.
“For obvious reasons, it will lead to easy availability of the product and price factor. We are the major stakeholders who have filling stations across the country.
“The price of petrol in our filling station will go much below N1,150 in our retail outlets depending on what Dangote Refinery agreed to give to us,”
The deal between Dangote Refinery and the marketers came after the Nigerian government announced that NNPCL would no longer be the sole off-taker of Dangote Petrol, which was part of the implementation of the Naira-for-crude deal.
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The Naira-for-crude implementation committee led by the Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, on October 11, 2024, permitted petrol marketers to lift Dangote Petrol.
Meanwhile, the latest agreement between IPMAN and Dangote Refinery on direct petrol sale has brought an end to the controversy between oil marketers and Dangote Refinery over fuel price in the last few days.
Dangote Refinery last week revealed that its gasoline is sold at N960 and N990 per litre for ships and trucks.
Earlier, IPMAN had insisted that imported fuel is cheaper than Dangote’s petrol.
It was reported that petrol landing cost dropped to N971 per litre in November 2024, according to the Major Energies Marketers Association.
Despite this, Nigerians buy petrol between N1,060 and N1,200 across filling stations in the country.
However, with the IPMAN and Dangote Refinery direct PMS sale agreement, Nigerians are likely to buy the product within N1060 per litre price or below.
It was gathered that the details of the petrol pricing agreed upon between IPMAN and Dangote Refinery will determine the price of the product in the coming days.
Recall that in the last two months, the price of petrol had doubled to between N1060 and N1,200 from N617 per litre traded in August 2024.
The hike in energy costs directly affects Nigeria’s inflation, which stood at 32.70 percent in September 2024.
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