PETROLEUM products marketers under the aegis of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), have threatened to shut down fuel stations this week if the Federal Government through the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) fails to make petroleum product available to them.
Speaking with journalists at the IPMAN headquarters in Ibadan, the Oyo State, over the weekend, the IPMAN chairman for Ibadan depot, Alhaji Bukola Mutiu, noted that Nigerians should not blame independent marketers for the current fuel scarcity in the country but from shortage supply from the NNPC.
He added that for over six months now, none of the existing licensed marketing companies with NNPC is being given the opportunity to pay, meaning marketers have to go to the private depots to buy fuel at exorbitant prices ranging from N212 and N220 per litre without other expenses.
