Dangote Petroleum Refinery fired back Tuesday against allegations that it has been exporting petroleum motor spirit to Lomé before quietly shipping the fuel back into Nigeria, dismissing the accusations as commercially illogical and contractually impossible, and vowing to correct what it called a deliberate campaign of misinformation.
The refinery, Africa’s largest and a centrepiece of Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote’s industrial empire, published a full-page statement, pointedly titled “Response to Unsubstantiated Claims and Tissue of Lies”, on June 23, 2026.
The statement laid out four distinct arguments against what it described as an ill-motivated web of falsehoods, spanning commercial logic, trade economics, contractual controls, and the refinery’s stated public policy positions.
“As a matter of policy, we do not respond to baseless and unsubstantiated claims,” the management statement read. “However, we have decided to clear the air on this ill-motivated web of falsehoods for posterity.”
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