Hon. Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun has appealed to President Bola Tinubu, to beam a searchlight into the activities of Nigerian Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) to unravel the root cause of the persistent fuel scarcity in the country.
The APC chieftain who made the appeal while speaking with newsmen on Sunday in Osogbo, said that Nigerians had hoped scarcity of fuel had ended after subsidy on the product was removed by the Federal Government.
Oyintiloye, a member of the defunct APC Presidential Campaign Council, said while Nigerians were struggling to survive the ongoing economic hardship, inadequate fuel supply should not be added to already tense situation.
“In recent months, Nigerians have been having it tough getting petroleum products at filling stations across the country.
“I want to appeal to the president to come to the rescue of Nigerians who are passing through untold hardship due to fuel scarcity.
“Fuel scarcity is now becoming a normal routine of daily lives in Nigeria and which is supposed not to be.
” For the past few weeks now, Nigerians have been sleeping in filling stations across the country in a bid to get fuel for their businesses and vehicles.
” While many of the filing stations do not have the product, those who have it are selling at very exorbitant prices
” Nigerians are passing through a lot and that is why the president will have to intervene and put an end to the severe hardship people are passing through,” he said.
Oyintiloye, a former lawmaker also urged the president to do everything humanly possible to revamp refineries in the country.
He said if the four Nigerian refineries could be revamped, fuel scarcity would be a thing of the past.
Oyintiloye said that the burden on the shoulders of the masses was becoming unbearable, hence the need for the president’s urgent intervention
Oyintiloye said that the president’s interventions were needed due to the suffering Nigerians were facing on nearly, monthly basis due to fuel scarcity.
Oyintiloye, however, said that rather than for the situation to be improved, fuel situation had become worse off, with Nigerians passing through untold hardship to get the product at a very high price.