Vehicle owners in Abuja have been groaning over the increase in the price of petrol from N617 to N640 across most filling stations in the nation’s capital.
Politics Nigeria observed that vehicle owners have been engaged in panic buying of petrol especially at filling that were yet to adjust their prices.
A visit to some filling stations in Abuja showed long queues, especially in NNPC retail stations who still maintain the old price.
The queue led to traffic gridlock along Olusegun Obasanjo Way at Wuse as the two NNPC stations along the route had long queues of cars waiting to fill their tanks.
The Mobil Filling Station at Utako also had vehicles waiting to purchase fuel even though it was sold at N640 per litre while ETERNA fuel station in Jabi was closed.
The situation was the same on Airport Road with long queues in stations like BOVAS, SALBAS OIL, AA Rano and SHEMA.
At AA Rano located at Jabi, only one fuel pump was dispensing the product from the 30 fuel pumps in the station.
Few cars were allowed into the station with the main gate to the station locked to prevent other cars from coming in.
A taxi driver, Salisu Ibrahim, said the queue started on Friday with some selling at N630 and others at N640.
“Since the Friday, some of the stations have closed up and the rumour we are hearing is that they want to increase the pump price to N700 per litre.”
