The current fuel scarcity is a ploy by the Federal Government to increase the pump price of petroleum products, Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has alleged.
He said the plot was based on the belief that Nigerians would opt for the product at any price once there is scarcity.
The position of the governor was made known in a statement issued by his media aide, Lere Olayinka, on Friday.
The governor who was reacting to the ongoing long queues at filling stations said it was obvious that President Muhammadu Buhari had failed.
According to him, it was necessary to rescue the nation from his grip and that could be done by voting out the president in 2019.
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The statement reads in part:
“I warned Nigerians before President Buhari was elected and I am telling Nigerians now that the only option to rescue our country from being brought down completely is to vote out Buhari and his APC in 2019.
“It is sad that this Buhari’s APC government had to choose this Christmas and New Year period to ground Nigeria with the fuel scarcity that it deliberately orchestrated.
“Already, fuel is being sold officially at between N180 and N200 at petrol stations across the country.
“Like I said a few days ago, what the federal government is doing is to create scarcity so that Nigerians will be willing to buy at any price, provided the product is made available.
“It was to achieve this planned increment of petrol pump price that they restricted supply of petrol to NNPC alone.”
