The coalition, in a statement issued after an emergency
meeting in Abuja on Thursday night, warned that Nigerians would not fold their
arms and watch vested interests hold the country hostage again.

The statement, signed by Comrade Godfrey Boma, President of
CELSJ, said barely forty-eight hours after the suspension of its strike, NUPENG
began a new round of blackmail against the Dangote Refinery, accusing the union
leaders of compromise.

He added that the pattern of events showed a deliberate
orchestration to force the refinery into endless disputes and delay its
stabilisation, thereby pushing Nigeria back to dependency on imported fuel.

“Let it be known that Nigerians will never allow a handful
of profiteers to sabotage a refinery that has already begun reshaping the
country’s energy future. The same forces that built fortunes off decades of
importation rackets are the ones now using NUPENG to destabilise the industry.
This is a direct attack on the Nigerian people, and it must not stand,” the
coalition declared.

“An agreement was freely entered into before the Department
of State Services, DSS, the Minister of Finance, and the Ministry of Labour.
That agreement provided for workers’ unionisation in line with extant labour
laws. But within hours of the ink drying on that deal, NUPENG returned to the
public space, raising false alarms and threatening fresh strikes. This is not
labour unionism; this is sabotage on a grand scale,” Boma stressed.

The coalition urged Nigerians across all sectors to be
vigilant, insisting that any attempt to destabilise the sector was tantamount
to undermining national survival.

“Every kobo spent importing fuel is a direct theft of jobs,
a direct sabotage of growth, and a direct burden on the Nigerian household. The
Dangote Refinery is one of the few interventions that has begun to break the
chains of dependency, and no cabal or compromised union must be allowed to drag
us back into darkness,” CELSJ said.

The group further appealed to the federal government and
security agencies not to allow “paid agents of the oil importation cartel” to
hide under labour activism to weaken the refinery’s operations.

“We call on the DSS, the Ministry of Labour, and all
security agencies to monitor NUPENG’s leadership closely. Nigerians will not
tolerate another season of strikes designed and paid for by corrupt oil barons.
Those who pocketed bribes to undermine national interest must be exposed and
prosecuted without delay,” the statement read.

“This is a defining moment. Nigerians must come out en masse
to say no to the agents of oil slavery. We must defend this refinery because it
is our collective lifeline. NUPENG and their sponsors must understand that the
days of holding Nigerians hostage with imported fuel rackets are gone forever,”
the group declared.