A Pro-Dangote Refinery public affairs analyst, Kelvin Emmanuel, has been under fire for his anti-Port Harcourt and Warri Refineries’ comment on television.
Kelvin, a guest on ChannelsTV programme, Politics Today, earlier expressed pessimism that a refinery in Nigeria would ever work.
“The possibility of Warri refinery refining any product is almost zero,” he said, adding; “according to what they said, Warri and Port Harcourt refineries are working, but that is disputable.”
Criticising Kelvin for allegedly seeing nothing positive in Nigeria and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.), some Nigerians lampooned the man they described as Dangote’s proxy for allegedly pushing for a monopoly where Dangote becomes the sole supplier of fuel to Nigerians.
A ChannelsTV viewe with username @rozapepper on X wrote; “I know a paid propaganda when I see one. End Users are getting on a daily basis but you want us to believe the refineries are not refining any product? Alinko is at work here lol.”
Another viewer, @Iamthere , in a recaation to ChannelsTV update on X, added, “This people are full of negativity in their life they see no good thing other than bad news,”
Corroborating the view, Abdullahi Ayofe wrote in a series of tweets: “Why does Kelvin refuse to acknowledge anything positive about the NNPC?
“Why does he constantly echo Dangote’s stance? Why is he pushing for a monopoly where Dangote becomes the sole supplier of fuel to Nigerians?
“Dangote is a businessman—he only considered reducing prices after the NNPC refineries came online.
“Is Kelvin truly advocating for Nigeria’s best interests, or is he serving an agenda,thereby pushing propaganda? Who is funding Kelvin’s narrative?”
Bamide Badmus took a different route as he posited; “Kelvin is a brilliant guy and gives out sound arguments, but
@channelstv could have done better by not mixing up his global analysis of the sector with specific verifiable stories of events in the industry as per @nnpclimited’s activities.”
