Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, (IPMAN), says petrol will be available from Wednesday.
Gatekeepers News reports that Abubakar Maigandi, Vice President of IPMAN has warned motorists against panic buying.
Maigandi gave this warning on Tuesday while speaking as a guest on Newsday, a news programme on Arise TV.
“The government and the NNPC is (sic) on it.
“There is no way we can sell those contaminated because it will affect motorists.
“But…car owners should stop panic-buying. By God’s grace, today or tomorrow, the product will be available nationwide,” he said.
On Monday, Nigerians woke up to queues at various filling stations across the country, and the queues extended across cities as citizens scrambled for various quantities of the products on Tuesday.
According to reports, most of the petrol Nigeria imported under the Direct Sale, Direct Purchase (DSDP) contract through Litasco, an international marketing and trading company of LUKOIL, had a high content of methanol and Ethanol, which are outside the official specification of Nigeria’s petrol.
In a viral video, a petrol attendant was seen complaining about how adulterated petrol supplied to the station is damaging motorists’ cars and motorcycle engines.
In reaction to this allegation, Maigandi said IPMAN buys its product through NNPC and private depots.
He added that in every business sometimes “there must an issue and this has been already understanding (sic) without many damages”.
However, the IPMAN Vice President stated that the NNPC is working seriously to see that they get the correct product so that the marketers will continue loading.
“Already, we told all our marketers to stand by the various depot that they are loading. Immediately when we start receiving the uncontaminated products, the products will be available in most of our filling stations nationwide,” he said.
