By Victor Adeoti
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to intervene in the country’s persistent fuel scarcity.
Oyintiloye said that the President’s intervention was needed due to the suffering Nigerians experience on a nearly monthly basis due to fuel scarcity.
The APC chieftain, speaking with newsmen on Sunday in Osogbo, said that Nigerians expected that after the removal of the subsidy on petrol, scarcity of the product would be a thing of the past.
Oyintiloye noted that instead, for the situation to improve, Nigerians were passing through untold hardship and unbearable stress at filling stations to “buy petrol at a very high price.”
He appealed to the President to shine a searchlight on the activities of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) to unravel the causes of the country’s persistent petrol scarcity.
Oyintiloye, a defunct APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) member, said that while Nigerians were struggling to survive the ongoing economic hardship, it would be unwise for them to be working with fuel scarcity.
“In recent months, Nigerians have had a tough time getting petroleum products at filling stations across the country
“I want to appeal to the President to rescue Nigerians passing through untold hardship due to fuel scarcity.
“Fuel scarcity is now becoming a routine of our daily lives, which is supposed not to be.
“For the past few weeks, Nigerians had been sleeping in filling stations nationwide to get fuel for their businesses.
“While many filling stations do not have the product, those who have are selling at very exorbitant prices.
“Nigerians are passing through a lot, and that is why the President has to intervene to put an end to the severe hardship Nigerians are passing through,” he said
Oyintiloye, a former lawmaker, also urged the President to do everything humanly possible to revamp the nation’s refineries.
He said fuel scarcity would be a thing of the past if the four Nigerian refineries could be revamped.
Oyintiloye said that the burden on the masses’ shoulders was becoming unbearable, hence the need for the President’s urgent intervention.
