In a separate interview yesterday,IPMAN’s National President, Alhaji Abubakar Maigandi, told The Nation that his association heard recently from Dangote Refinery that it would soon start selling directly to retailers.
“Up till now we are buying products through NNPCL and NNPCL will tell us to go there and load,” Maigandi said by phone.
“We are discussing they should allow us to start taking the product direct so that we can share to our members. He (Dangote) said he will do it. We wrote him a letter and even sat with his management.
“They have responded, that was when the DSS intervened, when they said they would allow us to buy directly.