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As Nigerians groan under a biting shortage of petrol, Nigeria’s ruling party has said the product is available in abundance.
“There’s no ‘actual scarcity’,” the APC said in a statement on Twitter Friday afternoon.
The party blamed marketers and panic buying during yuletide holidays for the lingering scarcity.
Unavailability of petrol has thrown the country into a renewed state of chaos for more than three weeks, despite several promises by the Buhari administration that it was in control of the situation.
The scarcity has seen petrol prices skyrocket from N145 maximum approved price to as much as N400 at the black market.
Millions of Nigerian also sleep at filling stations across the country in search of the product, and many join queues with little or no inkling that a filling station will sell.
A four-day ultimatum issued to the Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, resolve the crisis elapsed two weekends ago.
“There’s no ‘actual scarcity’,” the APC said in a statement on Twitter Friday afternoon.
The party blamed marketers and panic buying during yuletide holidays for the lingering scarcity.
Unavailability of petrol has thrown the country into a renewed state of chaos for more than three weeks, despite several promises by the Buhari administration that it was in control of the situation.
The scarcity has seen petrol prices skyrocket from N145 maximum approved price to as much as N400 at the black market.
Millions of Nigerian also sleep at filling stations across the country in search of the product, and many join queues with little or no inkling that a filling station will sell.
A four-day ultimatum issued to the Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, resolve the crisis elapsed two weekends ago.
