There’s no ‘actual scarcity’ of fuel, APC claims

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has claimed that there was no “actual scarcity” of fuel in the country even as Nigerians continued to grapple with the biting scarcity.

“There’s no ‘actual scarcity’,” the APC claimed in a statement on Twitter Friday.

The party blamed marketers and panic buying during the yuletide holidays for the shortage of fuel.

Following allegations by Governor Ayodele Fayose that the scarcity was a deliberate ploy by the Buhari administration to hike fuel prices to as much as N200, the APC denied government involvement, blaming greedy marketers instead.

“Just some stakeholders hoarding allocated products in order to cause artificial scarcity + panic buying, for their own selfish interests,” the APC said.

The party however said the government was working on resolving the crisis and “regretted” any inconveniences.

Read also: FUEL SCARCITY: Wake up, do something, stop punishing Nigerians, PDP, Fayose urge Buhari

The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had said the responsibility for the scarcity rested on President Muhammadu Buhari’s shoulders, being Minister of Petroleum Resources.

As the scarcity continues across the country, no clear path towards a solution appears visible even as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) continue to shift responsibility and offer excuses.

Also, a four-day ultimatum issued to the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, to resolve the crisis, elapsed two weekends ago.

 

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