By Dennis Mernyi, Abuja
The fuel situation in Abuja, the nation’s capital is worsening by every hour with stretch of longer queues at most of the fuel stations within the city and its environment.

This is even as the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) has during the weekend assured of adequate products supply.

The situation aggravated penultimate weeks at the discovery that contaminated petrol was imported into the country and sold to Nigerians.

According to NNPC, the bad fuel was stopped from been sold. It explained that, the exercise caused supply shortage which resulted into the scarcity and long queues.

But again during the weekend, long fuel queues resurfaced in the city and environs as a result of scarcity.

As the situation worsened in Abuja, most fillings stations with the products have been besieged by motorists a commuters were stranded at bus stops around the city and the outskirts.

Transport fares have also gone higher in and around the city.

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According to marketers, the bad product will have to be properly evacuated from depots and filling stations to authorised places before the new product could be moved into the domestic market.

However, the situation has culminated in the emergence of illegal or black market, whose operators were seen hawking the product at between N350 and N450 per litre, depending on location in Abuja and environs.