The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has assured Nigerians that the lingering petrol scarcity would soon be a thing of the past.
The Corporation made this assurance via a statement released on its verified Twitter and Facebook pages on Thursday morning.
NNPC said it is working tirelessly to take the queues off the petrol stations across the country.
In the statement signed by NNPC image maker, Garba Deen Mohammed, it was disclosed that “efforts are in full gear to eliminate all extraneous factors which have so far impeded the free flow of petrol across the country, especially the issue of foreign exchange for oil marketers which the Honorable Minister is working with the Central Bank of Nigeria to resolve.”
The Corporation decried the”misinterpretation” of statement credited to the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, on Wednesday in Abuja that the scarcity will persist till May 2016.
Kachikwu had led members of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, to a meeting with President Muhammad Buhari at the Villa and told journalists after the meeting that it would about two more months to end the scarcity of fuel.
The NNPC apologised “to Nigerians for the recent hardship in assessing petroleum products, the NNPC assured of normalization of the fuel supply and distribution system in the weeks ahead.”
