You won’t spend next Xmas on petrol queues — Atiku

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has promised Nigerians that they will not spend their next Christmas queuing for petrol at filling stations if they vote for him in February.

Atiku said this in his Christmas message which was signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu.

He said the APC administration had set a new record of the longest petrol scarcity in the history of Nigeria.

Shaibu noted that the current fuel scarcity which began in January 2022, on account of the importation of adulterated petrol had refused to ease.

The statement reads in part: “With the fuel scarcity now continuing till December, the government has run out of excuses even as most Nigerians are now at the mercy of black marketers who sell petrol as high as N500 per litre. The NNPC which is the sole importer of petrol has failed to live up to its duties, clear evidence that its privatisation is merely cosmetic.

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“But the biggest culprit in this mess is President Muhammadu Buhari who is the minister of petroleum. It is saddening that he has failed to bring succour to Nigerians who are suffering from the worsening inflation, unemployment and insecurity.

“It is exasperating that Tinubu is promising to remove petrol subsidy when his party has retained it for the last seven years and spent billions of dollars subsidising criminality. It is obvious that Tinubu’s statement is an indictment on Buhari.”