Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has
said it is a shame that Nigerians are celebrating Christmas amid a serious fuel
scarcity.
Osinbajo’s spokesperson, Laolu
Akande, quoted the vice-president as saying this, when he visited Oando and
Heyden filling stations in Lagos.
“It’s such a shame that Christmas
has been, to some extent, with this sort of discomfort,” Osinbajo said.
“This is deeply regretted, and l
know that, despite the resilience and strength of people in Lagos and the
Nigerian people, we would see ourselves through this and will enjoy our
Christmas and have a great new year.
“We are trying to move as quickly
as we can. Obviously, people have gone through a lot of pain and anguish in the
past few days, and that is deeply regretted.
“We are trying to do what we can
to move as quickly as possible and there is certainly enough products to be
able to solve the problem.
“We will be able to solve the
problem; the short period of scarcity is quite a bit of burden, but we know
that so long as products are enough and the trucks coming out and feeding the
stations, this will be over very soon.
“I am going around with the
Honourable Minister of State for Petroleum Resources here in Lagos to ensure
that first, the trucks are being loaded from all the depots, and also looking
at the filling stations to see that things are moving on very well.
“The GMD of the NNPC is also
working in Abuja to see that things are moving quickly and we are moving around
the country. So we expect that it will be resolved very quickly.”
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