Aliko Dangote has filed a proper petition with the Impartial Corrupt Practices and Different Associated Offences Fee (ICPC) towards the CEO of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA).
In an announcement by the ICPC spokesperson, John Okor Odey, the fee confirmed the receipt of the petition on Tuesday, December 16, 2025.
“The Impartial Corrupt Practices and Different Associated Offences Fee (ICPC) writes to verify that it obtained a proper petition at the moment Tuesday, sixteenth December, 2025 from Alhaji Aliko Dangote by means of his lawyer. The petition is towards the CEO of the NMDPRA, Alhaji Farouk Ahmed.
“The ICPC needs to state that the petition might be duly investigated,” the fee acknowledged.
Dangote’s lawyer, Harmless Adoh, mentioned they submitted the petition towards Farouk Hamit over alleged undue advantages from public workplace, citing proof of misconduct below Part 19 of the ICPC Act.
“We hooked up proof of monies which can be being expended as faculty charges for his kids in extra of $7 million yearly. And we marvel how a civil servant in Nigeria will get that sort of cash to pay faculty charges alone and different logistics on behalf of his kids. So, our shopper has the proper as a taxpayer to current this petition towards the excesses of the general public officer. It’s for the fee to research,” he mentioned
Adoh mentioned that if the ICPC finds proof of wrongdoing by Farouk Ahmed, formal prosecution will observe.
The dispute escalated after Dangote publicly accused the NMDPRA boss of corruption and {economic} sabotage, together with claims that Ahmed spent round $5 million on the abroad secondary training of his 4 kids, a determine Dangote says is inconsistent with the earnings of a public official.
Dangote has additionally criticised the regulator for issuing what he described as reckless licences for the importation of petroleum merchandise regardless of enough native refining capability, suggesting that such actions undermine home production and favour import pursuits.
He additionally alleged that the company has been releasing figures that don’t precisely replicate the precise production at its Lekki-based refinery, insisting that the regulator’s studies current a distorted view of operations.
The Socio-{Economic} Rights and Accountability Challenge (SERAP) has known as on Nigeria’s anti-corruption businesses, together with the ICPC, EFCC, and Code of Conduct Bureau, to urgently examine allegations of corruption on the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA). SERAP urged the businesses to query Ahmed, determine these accountable, get well any illicit funds, and improve transparency and accountability in Nigeria’s oil and fuel sector.
The stress between Dangote’s refining pursuits and Nigeria’s petroleum regulator stretches again to earlier in 2025, when Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals FZE filed a N100 billion lawsuit on the Federal Excessive Court docket in Abuja difficult import licences issued by the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) and others, together with the Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Firm Restricted (NNPCL).
The refinery argued that the regulator continued to grant licences to import refined petroleum merchandise regardless of home production capability, claiming this violated sections of the Petroleum Business Act and harmed native refining development.
Nevertheless, the go well with, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1324/2024, was formally discontinued in July 2025, with Dangote’s authorized workforce submitting a discover of discontinuance to withdraw the case towards the NMDPRA, NNPCL and different defendants.