By Jimmy Fatunbi
A senior official of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Gillis-Harry, has said that if marketers could get Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) otherwise known as petrol from Dangote Refinery at N766, the product can be sold cheaper than the price NNPC currently fixes.
He said, “Give and take, we can sell at N790 in Lagos. In the far north, it may be N820 per litre because of the distance.”
Gillis-Harry, however, said his group was not aware of the price of fuel from the Dangote refinery.
“Well, it will be acceptable because now we are paying NNPC N870 for a litre, so if we see it at N766, it is cheaper and we will prefer to buy that.
“I cannot determine how much we will sell to Nigerians; we will work out the retail price. It is not one individual or one organisation’s prerogative to put a price, we will work it out and we will argue out our point.
“We are ready to support Dangote, but they are not talking to us. We are the people they need; I have over 6,000 retail outlets under my management, but Dangote is not talking to us”, he added.
