Prince Adewole Adebayo has one specific promise at the top of his 2027 presidential agenda: get Nigeria's four refineries running again. The Social Democratic Party candidate says reviving domestic refining capacity is the clearest path to bringing petrol prices down for ordinary Nigerians.
Adebayo's argument is straightforward. Nigeria has long exported crude oil only to import refined fuel at painful costs, and he believes that cycle can be broken by putting the country's existing refinery infrastructure back to work rather than relying on external markets.
Whether his plan holds up to scrutiny remains to be seen, but with fuel prices still a raw nerve for millions of Nigerian households, it is the kind of promise that tends to travel fast on the campaign trail.
Originally published by BusinessDay.