PTD Fires Contemporary Shot At NARTO, NUPENG, Says ‘Permit Dangote To Develop Nigeria’s Petroleum Trade, Let The Sector Be Engaging To Extra Traders

The Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) Department of NUPENG has once more hailed the launch of Dangote Petroleum Refinery’s direct distribution of premium motor spirit (PMS) and automotive gasoline oil (AGO) to retailers all through Nigeria, saying the intervention alerts a major transformation for the Nigerian downstream petroleum business.

The department additionally cautioned the Nigerian Affiliation of Highway Transport Homeowners (NARTO) and NUPENG to cease sounding the deceptive and inaccurate alarm that Dangote’s free merchandise distribution and provide to retailers can be unsustainable or may undermine and get rid of different impartial transporters who’re within the nation’s petroleum distribution community.

This disclosure was made identified on Thursday September 25, 2025 by Comrade Obi-Dede Surprise on behalf of PTD elders in Port Harcourt whereas delivering a keynote handle to spherical off a two-day workshop organized by some freight forwarders and logistics retailers in Rivers State capital.

His phrases, “Dangote is just consolidating on the breakthrough made by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu when he fully lower down the feathers of the petroleum subsidy profiteers. Dangote has revolutionized the downstream sector which can be an encouragement for extra native and worldwide buyers to pitch their tents with the continuing progress within the oil and gasoline sector. This Dangote’s new supply coverage which entails a fleet of 4,000 CNG-powered vans delivering on to petrol stations, industrial corporations, and different massive shoppers is a feat that needs to be vehemently applauded.

“Infact we needs to be grateful to Mr. President, he’s actually a visionary chief, he helped us to fully eradicate corruption within the petroleum business. It’s on file that the elimination of the petrol subsidy by the President ended a historic monetary drain that price Nigeria over $84bn and has helped finance 40 vital street initiatives throughout the nation in two years. So, those that are criticizing Dangote’s method and methodology in working his enterprise to deliver a lease of life to Nigerians are those that not profit from the proceeds of subsidy who’ve drained Nigerians to their bone marrow for over a decade and the chief beneficiaries are NARTO and NUPENG.

“How can any proper considering individual be against the constructive change or the brand new regular which Dangote has patriotically dropped at the business? Such people may solely be taking part in the cardboard of an financial saboteur. Watching NARTO President Yusuf Othman communicate on nationwide tv was a present of disgrace and complete embarrassment to our nation. He spoke off factors and he had no understanding of the Petroleum Trade Act and the way market forces are anticipated to dictate the affairs of the very delicate and unstable nation’s power sector.

“He made a idiot of himself by permitting some renegades in NUPENG particularly the President, Basic Secretary, and the Nationwide Trustee to make use of him to attain low-cost propaganda that lacks substance and logic. Othman needs to be corrected that nobody is bypassing transporters, that is now a market of keen purchaser and free vendor. Fueling stations and telecom operators are usually not complaining, they’re pleased with Dangote and extra importantly, they’re supporting Dangote’s zeal for power effectivity and safety within the nation which is making their companies flourish. Dangote’s supply system is sustainable and dependable. The vans are eco-friendly and never like those deployed by NARTO which might be rickety, smoky, and have typically failed minimal security requirements and pose severe dangers to each public security and public well being.

“For years, impartial petroleum entrepreneurs with their collaborators, NARTO and NUPENG, have been behind product provide bottlenecks, exorbitant depot costs, and erratic product availability. And in worse instances they even inspired product smuggling exterior the shores of Nigeria. Nonetheless Dangote’s direct distribution mannequin now bypasses all these economically-toxic hurdles, permitting entrepreneurs particularly these in underdeveloped rural areas to entry merchandise at aggressive charges.

“Dangote the true game-changer for the business is right here to remain for the higher good of Nigeria. Earlier than, Nigerians needed to take care of a number of middlemen, delays, and excessive prices. Now, stakeholders within the worth chain can order straight from Dangote and get deliveries sooner. Equally, rural gas stations, typically uncared for by main distributors as a result of logistical challenges, stand to achieve considerably. Dangote’s method consists of deploying smaller, extra environment friendly vans to succeed in distant places, thereby making certain regular provide and decreasing gas shortage in these areas.

“Producers and different industrial gamers who rely closely on diesel and petrol for operations are set to learn from Dangote’s bulk provide mannequin. By eliminating intermediaries, factories can safe gas at decrease prices, decreasing operational bills. As everyone knows industries in Nigeria spend billions yearly on diesel alone, however immediately Dangote has modified the narrative, he now provides straight at higher costs, and it will ease manufacturing prices and probably increase Nigeria’s manufacturing output.

“As this new distribution mannequin is succeeding in reducing out middlemen and inefficiencies; shoppers would stand to see decrease gas costs in the long term. NARTO ought to get up to the brand new actuality which can’t be reversed because of the rants by some disgruntled, grasping, and callous businessmen; they can not maintain our expensive nation hostage beneath the guise of unionism; or blackmailing President Tinubu, business regulators, and the ministry of Labour and Employment on the expense of extraordinary Nigerians who’ve been impoverished over time by the actions of those identical subsidy profiteers,” Comrade Obi-Dede said.