Court documents seen by Reuters showed that the refinery instituted the suit against Nigeria’s Attorney General, seeking to overturn import permits issued by the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA).
Fresh tensions are emerging in Nigeria’s downstream oil sector as Dangote Petroleum Refinery moves to halt the continued importation of petrol into the country through a new lawsuit challenging fuel import licences granted to oil marketers and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL).
Court documents seen by Reuters showed that the refinery instituted the suit against Nigeria’s Attorney General, seeking to overturn import permits issued by the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA).
The legal dispute comes almost a year after Dangote Refinery withdrew an earlier case that similarly challenged the issuance of fuel import licences to the NNPCL and several fuel trading firms.
In the fresh filing before the Federal High Court in Lagos, the refinery asked the court to nullify import permits recently issued or renewed by the NMDPRA, arguing that the approvals violated an existing court order directing parties to maintain the status quo pending determination of the matter.
