Niger Delta Activists for Renewed Hope (NDARH) have decried the inability of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL) to fix the nation’s comatose refineries in Warri and Port Harcourt.

The group, in conjunction with the Coalition of Civil Society Groups Against Corruption in the Energy Sector, on Thursday threatened to join the planned two-million-man protest aimed at occupying the corporate headquarters of the NNPCL in Abuja to register their anger over the development.

The groups, led by Comrade Jack Dickson and Barr. Kingsley Idono, lamented the non-functioning of the Port Harcourt, Warri, and Kaduna refineries, despite the trillions of naira injected for their rehabilitation under the Engr. Mele Kyari-led NNPCL.

They blamed the high cost of fuel for the hardship and anguish being faced by Nigeria, which is frustrating the good intentions of the Minister of Petroleum, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and his Renewed Hope Agenda.

The group noted: “Despite trillions of naira the government injected to make sure our refineries were rehabilitated, none is functioning. The man who should bury his head in shame and resign honourably, to give way to someone who would revive the plants from comatose and end incessant queues in our filling stations and crash the pump price to enable Nigerians to smile again, has suddenly become more powerful than all Nigerians.

“After shifting the goalposts constantly until the September 30 deadline he gave, Kyari has suddenly gone silent. He has refused to address Nigerians on why the refineries are still not working, as he promised, despite the billions of dollars he received.

“We in Niger Delta Activists for Renewed Hope will not keep quiet and allow an individual to sabotage the agenda of Mr. President. We know how much we suffered to deliver this government in our region, and Port Harcourt and Warri refineries were part of the promises we made to our people. Another election cycle is coming in 2027; we don’t know what to tell the people to win their votes again. That’s why we must all rise up to fight this ineptitude of Mele Kyari,” the group’s statement read.

The group further hinted that more organisations were indicating interest in joining the planned protest against the NNPCL boss.

Engr. Efe Irabor, the Spokesperson for the Coalition, while disclosing this in a statement on Wednesday, said Nigerians were already fed up with Kyari and his men, hence the national consciousness of the people to take their destiny into their own hands.

“We shall continue to mobilise more people until we gather 10 million Nigerians to protest on the streets of Abuja, Port Harcourt, Warri, and Kaduna. We have plenty of comrades coming to sign up on behalf of their organisations, and we are happy that everyone is beginning to see reason with us that Kyari must go. If the President likes it, let him keep him, until his government becomes very unpopular and the international community starts sanctioning the Nigerian government for being responsible for whatever will become of all of us in the long run,” Irabor said.

It would be recalled that the coalition mobilised other Civil Society Groups, threatening to shut down the National Assembly complex on Tuesday with the Kyari-Must-Go protest.

The 2-million anti-Kyari protesters are demanding the immediate resignation of the NNPCL boss, Kyari, or his dismissal by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Tinubu, who also doubles as the Honourable Minister of Petroleum Resources.