Fuel scarcity in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, is bitting harder.
Motorists and residents spent hours yesterday at filling stations.
There are long queues as early as 5:30am. Pumps’ attendants laboured to contain surging crowds of desperate buyers.
A litre of petrol was sold at between N100 and N110 in some stations. Others sold at the official pump price but buyers had to part with N50 or N100 before they could buy.
At the NNPC mega station opposite the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) Secretariat, there was a long queue, which began at the station on Abiola Way and stretched into the IBB Boulevard road and to the Federal High Court opposite the Ogun State Government Secretariat– a distance of about a kilometre.
A taxi-cab driver said: “It is painful. I’m still on the line. The people in front of me of have not bought. You can see the queue in front and the one at the back. We don’t even know when we will leave here.”
