At the NIPCO petrol station
in Abuja at Arab Road in Kubwa, large number of vehicles were struggling to
purchase the product, leading to a gridlock which made it difficult for other
road users to ply the road.
Motorists faced hard times
as the fuel crisis situation continued across the country over the weekend with
long queues witnessed in almost all the petrol stations selling the products.
The situation was worsened
by the fact that a number of the petrol stations were shut, with the attendants
claiming that they do not have products in their tanks.
Motorists besieged the few
petrol stations that are selling the product, spending between four and six
hours on the queue in some cases.
At the NNPC mega station,
Katampe, along the Abuja-Kaduna expressway, about 300 cars were on the queue
struggling to buy the products.
A similar scenario was witnessed
in almost all the petrol stations dispensing the product at the Central
Business District.
In Gwarimpa, most of the
petrol stations were shut, while the few that had the product were besieged by
a large number of motorists.
Same situation played out
in Utako, Jabi, Maitama, Dutse, Garki, Nyanya, Wuse, Asokoro and Airport Road
among others.
One of the marketers in one
of the petrol stations said that it resorted to the use of only two pumps
because the tanks that service the other pumps were empty.
To make matters worse, a
number of the petrol stations besieged by motorists were dispensing fuel to
vehicles using only two pumps.
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