The Chief Executive Officer of Dairy Hills, Kelvin Emmanuel, has stirred the hornet’s nest on X (Twitter). In other words, he has become the butt of critical remarks over his cynical statements on the Port Harcourt and Warri Refineries during a television programme.
Kelvin was a guest on ChannelsTV programme, Politics Today, earlier on Monday where he expressed pessimism that a public refinery in Nigeria would ever work.
“The possibility of Warri refinery refining any product is almost zero,” he said, adding; “according to what they said, Warri and Port Harcourt refineries are working, but that is disputable.”
Criticising Kelvin for allegedly seeing nothing positive in Nigeria and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.), some Nigerians lampooned the man for allegedly pushing for a monopoly for another entity to become the sole supplier of fuel to Nigerians.
A ChannelsTV viewer with username @rozapepper on X wrote; “I know a paid propaganda when I see one. End Users are getting on a daily basis but you want us to believe the refineries are not refining any product?”
Another viewer, @Iamthere, in a reaction to the ChannelsTV update on X, added, “People like these are full of negativity in their life and they see no good thing other than bad news,”
Corroborating the view, Abdullahi Ayofe wrote in a series of tweets: “Why does Kelvin refuse to acknowledge anything positive about the NNPC?
“Is Kelvin truly advocating for Nigeria’s best interests, or is he serving an agenda, thereby pushing propaganda? Who is funding Kelvin’s narrative?”
Abba Audu added; “Kelvin, that’s a blatant lie! That’s utterly ridiculous. Do you expect Nigerians to believe you? We’re not gullible enough to swallow such a blatant falsehood. Both refineries are up and running and producing products. Where did you even get that energy expert from? Your claims are completely unfounded and lack credibility.”
Bamide Badmus took a different route as he posited; “Kelvin is a brilliant guy and gives out sound arguments, but @channelstv could have done better by not mixing up his global analysis of the sector with specific verifiable stories of events in the industry as per @nnpclimited’s activities.