In spite of assurances by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, on Friday that the fuel scarcity that resurfaced in most major cities last Thursday would soon disappear, the situation worsened at the weekend in Abuja and environs.
Long queues of anxious motorists continued to build outside most filling stations in the capital city, as most vehicle owners and commercial cab operators virtually relocated from their homes to the stations in an attempt to buy some quantity of the elusive essential commodity.
Some motorists, who said they woke up early on Sunday to see if they could buy fuel, were disappointed as stocks in most filling stations ran dry shortly after mid-day.
Except at the NNPC mega filling station in the Central Business District, most other filling stations were out of stock early, leaving long queues of vehicles stretching into distances.
The Conoil and Total filling stations located opposite the NNPC headquarters were dispensing till afternoon on Sunday, when they exhausted their stocks, while the Forte Oil filling station adjacent to NNPC mega station and Oando in Zone 1 were completely shut-down.
The Total and Oando filling stations at the Julius Berger round about, which sold the previous evening, did not have fuel to dispense to their customers by afternoon on Sunday, same as the Mobil, Conoil filling stations at Utako and IPCO, Forte Oil and Oando service stations at Jabi.
The situation was not different with most filling stations along the Airport Road, AYA, Maraba, Kubwa and Suleja in neighbouring Niger State.
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