Students protest in Oyo, rally support for Dangote Refinery
Students under the aegis of the National Association of Oduduwa Students, the Coalition of Yoruba Students, and the Yoruba Movement have staged a peaceful protest in solidarity with the Dangote Refinery in Oyo State.
The protest followed the Refinery’s ongoing rift with oil unions, PENGASSAN, NUPENG, and the Depot and DAPPMAN.
The students-protesters, who converged on Tuesday at the Iwo Road Roundabout end of Ibadan/Lagos Expressway, Ibadan in Oyo State, chanted different songs to show their solidarity.
reports that they marched through major routes, waving placards with inscriptions such as ‘Don’t Kill Dangote Refinery’, ‘#StopsabotagingfuelinNigeria’, ‘#EndPENGASSAN’, ‘#EndDAPPMAN’, ‘#DangoteRefineryIsANationalAsset’, ‘#StopSabotage’, among others.
Wearing matching shirts emblazoned with the statement, ‘Don’t Kill Dangote Refinery’, the students said the protest is aimed at drawing government’s attention to what they describe as a “coordinated attempt by vested interests” to frustrate the operations of the refinery, Nigeria’s biggest industrial investment and Africa’s largest single-train refinery.
Speaking, leader of the students, Olalere Adetunji, urged President Bola Tinubu and relevant government agencies to intervene urgently.
We want to use this period to appeal to the Federal Government to protect the refinery and ensure that labour and marketers’ actions do not derail Nigeria’s move toward fuel self-sufficiency,” he said.
