Peter Obi, dan takarar shugaban kasa a zaben 2023, ya nemi gaskiya da aminci a lokacin da masana’antar man fetur ta Port Harcourt ta fara samaru. A cewar rahotannin da aka samu, Obi ya yada wannan kira ne a wata sanarwa da ya fitar a ranar Talata, inda ya ce ita muhimma ne a yi gaskiya da aminci a cikin ayyukan masana’antar.
Shugaban masana’antar man fetur ta kasa, Mele Kyari, ya kaddamar da wata masana’antar da ke da karfin samar da galon 60,000 a rana a tsohuwar masana’antar man fetur ta Port Harcourt. Kyari ya bayyana cewa sashen sauran masana’antar za a kammala a lokaci mai zuwa.
Stakeholders a fannin man fetur, ciki har da Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), sun bayyana cewa fara aikin masana’antar zai kawo gasa, rage farashin man fetur, da kuma samar da ayyukan yi ga Nijeriya.
Katibin IPMAN na jihar Rivers, Tekena Ikpaki, ya ce fara aikin masana’antar zai zama abin da za a tuna har abada saboda ya kasance abin da aka yi jarrabawa na dogon lokaci. Ikpaki ya ce, “Haka yake a lokacin Allah ya sa komai zuri, kuma haka yake. Yanzu akwai gasa mai karfi a cikin tsarin, wanda zai kasance a fayin Nijeriya gaba daya.”
PETROAN, wata kungiya mai shiga da kaya a masana’antar man fetur, ta bayyana cewa fara aikin masana’antar zai samar da ayyukan yi, karba tattalin arzikin kasar, da kuma kawo gasa a fannin downstream. Joseph Obelle, Jami’in Hulda da Jama’a na PETROAN, ya ce kungiyarsu za ci gaba da aiki tare da NNPCL da sauran masu ruwa da tsaki a masana’antar don tabbatar da samar da kayayyaki daga masana’antar zuwa kowane wuri a kasar.