Petrol queues have resurfaced in Abuja and parts of Niger and Nasarawa states bringing black marketers in their hundreds with their trademark jerrycans.
Many fillings stations were shut to motorists on Monday morning, while the few ones dispensing the commodity were flooded with motorists and other petrol seekers.
The only retail outlet of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on the Kubwa-Zuba Expressway that dispensed petrol on Monday morning was jam-packed with motorists.
Some of the other filling stations on that road and in various locations in Abuja and neighbouring states were not selling petrol.
Attendants in some of the outlets told our correspondent that the threat by Petrol Tanker Drivers to embark on strike triggered the scarcity.
The NNPC had tweeted on Monday that “following GMD #NNPC Mallam @MKKyari’s intervention in the National Association of Road Transport Owners/Petroleum Tanker Drivers impasse, PTD has just announced the suspension of its planned strike until closure of discussion between both parties.
“Also, the GMD announced that there would be no increase in the ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit in the month of May 2021.”
