The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, the sole importer of petrol in Nigeria, has kept mum as residents of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, suffer fuel scarcity.
Checks by OsunDailyNG across filling stations along Kubwa expressway showed most stations are not dispensing petrol except the NNPC and Salbas.
Aliyu Bello, a motorist, lamented that he had been on the queue in NNPCL since 7 am.
He wondered what could have resulted in the fuel scarcity this time.
“I have been here since 7 am today, yet no assurance that I could get the product. The situation is terrible. I wonder what could be the reason for this hardship”, he stated.
Benson Adejo, a resident, said the situation is the same in Abuja’s Lugbe and Wuye areas.
“I queued at Shafa filling station Wuye for hours before I could get the product. On my way from Lugbe, I could not see any filling station dispensing”, he told OsunDailyNG.
OsunDailyNG reports that Kaduna residents are also experiencing fuel scarcity.
Calls and texts to the spokesperson of NNPCL, Femi Soneye, to get his comments to the fuel scarcity were not responded to as of the time of filing this report.
Similarly, the National President of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Abubakar Maigandi, did not reply to OsunDailyNG’s enquiry.
Recall that fuel subsidy removal by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government saw the pump price of fuel rise to between N617 and N690 per litre from N238.
In March, NNPCL debunked reports of fuel price reduction.
