The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has disclosed an alleged scheme involving an oil cabal in Nigeria working alongside international oil companies (IOCs) to undermine the operations of private refineries like Dangote Petroleum Refinery.

During his address at the November 2024 Abuja Special Holy Ghost service, Adeboye called on Nigerians to pray for divine intervention against the actions of unscrupulous oil marketers who are intent on causing hardship for the populace.

The cleric said that oil marketers are working hard to obstruct the refinery’s operations, following previous sabotage incidents affecting Nigeria’s four state-owned refineries.

Pastor Adeboye reminded the congregation that it was God who inspired Aliko Dangote to create a refinery after many unsuccessful attempts to revive the country’s four public refineries, which had wasted billions of Naira with minimal success.

He raised concerns about the continued reliance on fuel imports, despite Nigeria being a significant crude oil producer.

“Are we under a curse?” he asked. “We have four refineries, we poured all kinds of money into them, none of them is working.

“But God raised someone to build a refinery that works. He is not my relative; he is not from my village. He is not even a Christian, but he is a Nigerian who says, ‘Why should my people suffer when I have the means to build a refinery that can work?’ Now he is refining petrol, and some people want to stop him from selling it, so they can keep importing.”

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN has reached an agreement with Dangote Refinery to sell petrol to its members directly.

Meanwhile, Nigerians are still buying petrol at N1060 and N1200 at NNPC stations and other retail outlets.