Queues return as petrol stations run out of stock in Abuja

– Queues to wide successful 3 days, says IPMAN

By Obas Esiedesa, Abuja

For the archetypal clip since the 650,000 barrels-per-day Dangote Refinery began supplying petrol successful 2024, queues person resurfaced astatine petrol stations successful Abuja, with astir outlets unopen owed to a shortage of products.

Checks crossed the metropolis and surrounding areas showed respective filling stations closed, portion the fewer that opened were besieged by agelong lines of motorists.

The scarcity followed past week’s three-day concern enactment by lipid workers nether the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG).

Speaking to Vanguard, the Public Relations Officer of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Chief Chinedu Ukadike, assured that the queues would wide wrong 2 to 3 days.

Ukadike explained that the proviso disruption was caused by the strike.

“It is not conscionable Abuja alone. Lagos was adust 2 days agone and truthful was the East. It is simply a reflective effect of the PENGASSAN strike. Now that loading has commenced, wrong 2 to 3 days this small disruption successful organisation volition beryllium implicit and we volition resume mean supply. There is nary origin for alarm,” helium said.

He further disclosed that the Dangote Refinery has present go the sole root of petroleum products successful the country, with NNPC Limited, depot owners, and marketers each patronising the $20 cardinal facility.

The station Queues instrumentality arsenic petrol stations tally retired of banal successful Abuja appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.