Despite the growing queues across the country, the federal government has maintained that there is enough petrol in the depots to meet the rising demand.
Updating the press, after receiving a briefing from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), Minister of State, Petroleum, Mr Timipre Sylva, who spoke in Abuja, compared the current situation to an accident.
He stated although not desirable, accidents would happen occasionally, stressing that the situation although not foreseen, was being tamed.
“I am quite happy from what I have heard from the NNPC GMD and the Chief Executive of the Authority, that things are being brought under control,” the minister said.
But last week, the NNPC said it had over 1.7 billion litres of the product in stock, enough to meet the country’s demand.