Speaking in an interview with Bloomberg, the Nigerian VP said the administration of Buhari is working on a medium-term reduction of the pump price of petroleum products.
"We are going to be unbundling the NNPC so that its various components are effective core centres and are able to do their business well,'' Osinbajo who is in the UK to sign the Nigeria-UK solar energy agreement told the publication. ''We are going to have private refineries at the site of the old refineries, so they can benefit from the available infrastructure. So, we think that in the medium term, we would be able to get cheaper pump price, pump price of oil would be cheaper because we would be importing far less refined petroleum. A lot of that will be produced locally.
''Now, we have well over 30 modular refineries licences, so we think a lot of modular refineries would come. Many of them, their major concern is feed stock, are we going to be guaranteed feed stock? We are working on that. Once we are able to deal with that, we feel we would substantially be able to reduce pump price and get the whole business of importation of refined petroleum and the NNPC just getting directly involved in business; we are going to reduce that. The objective is to make the NNPC play more regulatory function.
''They are options that are always there. But we think that there are ways we can raise our own potion of contribution to the Joint Ventures. It will only be a last resort and we have not come anywhere near that.''
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