College students beneath the Nationwide Affiliation of Oduduwa College students (NAOS), the Coalition of Yoruba College students, and the Yoruba Motion staged a peaceable protest yesterday in Ibadan, Oyo State, in solidarity with the Dangote Refinery, which is at present locked in a dispute with oil unions and petroleum entrepreneurs.
The demonstrators gathered on the Iwo Street Roundabout alongside the Ibadan–Lagos Expressway, chanting solidarity songs earlier than marching by way of main streets of town.
They referred to as on the federal government to guard the refinery from what they described as sabotage.
Carrying placards with messages reminiscent of “Don’t Kill Dangote Refinery,” “#StopSabotagingFuelInNigeria,” “#EndPENGASSAN,” “#EndDAPPMAN,” and “#DangoteRefineryIsANationalAsset,” the protesters expressed concern about what they referred to as a coordinated try by vested pursuits to frustrate the operations of the refinery.
Wearing matching shirts with the inscription “Don’t Kill Dangote Refinery,” the scholars mentioned the demonstration was geared toward drawing the eye of the Federal Authorities and Nigerians to the necessity to safeguard the multi-billion-dollar facility, which is Africa’s largest oil refinery, from industrial and political sabotage.
Talking to journalists in the course of the rally, NAOS President, Olalere Adetunji, appealed to President Bola Tinubu and related federal businesses to intervene swiftly to make sure that disputes involving oil unions and entrepreneurs don’t undermine nationwide power safety.
“We wish to use this chance to attraction to the Federal Authorities to guard the refinery. The actions of labour teams and entrepreneurs shouldn’t be allowed to derail Nigeria’s progress in direction of gasoline self-sufficiency and financial independence,” Adetunji mentioned.
Safety personnel, together with officers of the Nigeria Police Pressure and the Federal Street Security Corps (FRSC), have been deployed alongside the protest routes to take care of order in the course of the peaceable march.
The scholars described the Dangote Refinery as a nationwide satisfaction and a logo of hope for Nigeria’s industrial and financial progress, urging all stakeholders to help its profitable operation for the advantage of the nation.
