By Idu Jude
Major fuel stations in the Federal Capital Territory and its environs, have against beginning to experience fuel shortage as long queue of vehicles emerge in the search of the seeming scarce commodity.

Passengers travelling within and outside the FCT already had lamented the sudden increase in transportation fair as a result of the scarcity of PMS.

Many àlso tracked long distance before getting help from available few.

AZMAN petrol station located at Area 11 Garki Abuja, was under lock and key Monday evening while the attention of all vehicles focused at nearby Total petrol station with buyers having slim chances of getting the product.

Information on the sudden return of cues across the fuel stations is varied stretchy as no one could definitely give reasons.

The station Manager  Shema petrol station Kugbo Abuja/Keffi expressway, Alhaji Ibrahim Magaji, told ThisNigeria that getting the product at the ex-depot is becoming problematic as only the NNPC has become the sole porter of the product.

According to Magaji who spoke in colloquial English, Subsidy removal may make things worse for Nigeria.

“Wallahi, this feeling station have not gotten a chance to load at the depot for one week now. So what is the problem? We may be in serious problem because if the NNPC and its agencies have failed the people, then the people should choose how to govern themselves”

Magaji further stated that there are other issues to his understanding that forms the problems, which includes pending matters with the tanker drivers and other unions.

ThisNigeria also gathered at Conoil opposite NNPC towers that the resurgent of vehicles cue at the fuel stations is still within the ambit of the NNPC to tell Nigerians of their fate with regards to the Subsidy removal.

A pump attendee, who does not want his name mentioned berates the Federal Government of Nigeria, saying that the problem has been the disagreement between the independent marketers and the NNPC. “It has been who imports the products and at what price is it to be sold.

You see the NNPC goes around to control the price by its task force but failed to consider other things like the financial involvement in bringing the fuel to the consumers. Remember that they said that they have removed Subsidy but NNPC is still porting by itself.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has assured Nigerians that there would be no increase in the ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly known as Petrol in May”

Commercial bus drivers in the FCT, are not left out of the return of the queues as the fare has suddenly increased by 50 per cent beginning from Monday morning.

Ahmed Agbaje, could not hide his feelings on how he spent six hours waiting to purchase the PMS. He said. ” I also think that this scarcity is artificial, you see one of my colleagues told me that he bought at the neighbouring towns without problems. I think the things only happens within the town and few satellite towns across the FCT”.

Mrs Gloria Zhiwe, a civil servant, opted to choose the number of days to be in the office should the trend continues. ” You see I came out to the bus stop with the hope of getting to the office early. But I was meant to understand that there were few vehicles. Some say they do not have fuel to ply the roads, while some say they were on strike. My brother I heard many things but the worst part of it is that many people are here standing and those who can struggle gets chances of entering any available one that comes. Left for me, I cannot struggle, I may head back to the house if I fail to get one”

As the confusion persists, many PMS consumers believe that the NNPC and its Subsidiaries should be loud enough to put Nigerians through this quagmire.

Fuel queues resurface in Abuja over fear of price hike

Meanwhile, NNPC  GMD, Monday evening, informed Nigerians through an official Twitter account that the organization has no intention to increase the pump price of products in the month of May.

It tweeted, “There would be no increase in the ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit in the month of May 2021.”

The NNPC it could be recalled has insisted on Subcidising PMS products for an additional six months, which only the body will continue to enjoy the monopoly of lifting the product from overseas.