President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Assistant on Digital Communications, Bashir Ahmad, has caused a stir after sharing samples of crude oil discovered in the North on social media.
It would be recalled that the NNPC had in October 2019, announced the discovery of crude oil, gas and condensate in the Kolmani River region at the border community between Bauchi and Gombe states.
Three years after the discovery, President Buhari who also doubles as the Minister of Petroleum Resources on Tuesday officially flagged off the ground-breaking ceremony of the Kolmani OPLs 809 and 810 at the Kolmani field site in Bauchi and Gombe States.
Buhari was joined by some of his cabinet members, including the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva.
Sharing the samples discovered, Bashir via his verified Twitter handle wrote: “A sample of the crude oil from Kolmani Oil Field in Bauchi & Gombe State.”
How Nigerians Reacted
Olaudah Equiano wrote:”Fools paradise. When oil producing countries and big oil majors are moving away from fossil fuels to renewable energy, this dinosaur in Aso Rock is still in 1973 Arab/Israeli oil boom era. I can’t wait for May 29th 2023.”
uriel_shantel wrote: ‘Is that not honey’
IkennaOkeh wrote: ”God knows my heart; that I’m so happy for you guys in the north. Now that you’ve discovered crude oil in the north, can we now pay attention to the political destinies of component nationalities?”
Okekeuba_Festus wrote: ”Good development; but I prefer @nnpclimited publish a final report; discovery of crude oil in a basin is not the end but delineating it’s reserve capacity will inform us if Kolmani reserve is economical or we add Kolmani to category of “places”, we can just find crude in Nigeria.”
Dalhatuabubaka9 wrote: ‘‘This is really a big win for Northern Nigeria, I hope FG explores more northern states like Kogi, Nasarawa and Benue.”
Ferdi wrote: ”It’s a great News for Nigeria, I just pray and hope it doesn’t turn out the same way like the gold in the north, where the gold only belongs to the North while the crude in the south belongs to Nigeria. This time we pray the crude in the north belongs to Nigeria.”
Grande Koko wrote: ”Thank God the North now have oil. Let everyone use their resources to develop their region.”
Coolnwa wrote: ”Its almost in major oil basins in Nigeria of which the North is not excluded. The question is how commercially viable is it. There has been discovery in the North for a long time but no production because its not viable. Stop celebrating mediocrity.”