North needs more refineries – Bashir Ahmad

Bashir Ahmad, ex-aide to former President Muhammadu Buhari, has suggested that the northern region might soon need additional petroleum refineries.

This is even as he said that the progress at the Kolmani oil fields now at advanced stages

Ahmad was reacting to a post on X by Kalu Aja, a financial expert and educator.

Kalu had claimed that Kaduna Refinery was built to refine imported crude oil, arguing it is not economically sound.

He further insisted that if oil is imported, the refinery should be at the coast, eliminating the oil pipeline.

“The crude oil pipeline to Kaduna from the gas rich Niger Delta was built in 1980. Why wasn’t a gas pipeline built then? Lack of foresight?,” Kalu said.

However, an X user, Bello Salleh claimed that Kalu’s assertion on Kaduna Refinery as ‘designed to use imported crude’ is a mischievous and misleading half-truth.

Reacting to Salleh’s reply to Aja, Ahmad said the financial expert consistently prefers to make unguarded and ill-informed assertions on Nigerian affairs just for the sake of engagement.

He said: “Thank you, Doc, for properly addressing @FinPlanKaluAja1, who consistently prefers to make such unguarded and ill-informed assertions on Nigerian affairs just for the sake of engagement. He forgets that facts should always guide our conversations of national importance. Anyway, the reality is, with the progress at the Kolmani oil fields now at advanced stages, the North might soon be in need of additional refineries.”

North needs more refineries – Bashir Ahmad