A lawyer, Festus Keyamo, who is also a
spokesperson for the APC Presidential Campaign Council, described
Saraki’s comment shared during a Channels TV interview , as an attempt
to discredit the party’s presidential candidate Buhari.

Keyamo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN),
rejects the Senate President’s submission analyzing that the country
only uses a maximum of 22 million litres of fuel as opposed to what the
current government has made everyone believe.

“In clear demonstration of
hallucination with figures, Dr. Bukola Saraki claimed, in an interview
with Channels Television a few days ago, that Nigeria’s petrol
consumption is about 20-22 million Iitres per day and that the current
import level of about 50million litres is a scam and fraudulent,” Keyamo objects in a statement released on Friday, January 11, 2019.

The scarcity of power in Nigeria has ensured a
reliance on petrol for self-generated electricity. This
dysfunctionality has contributed in a heavy reliance on the commodity.

Regular power supply is still lacking in Nigeria, and has been
placed below the problem of insecurity and unemployment in many campaign
promises. – Spark Online

Since January 2015, the demand for petrol has
grown immensely prompting more importation. Festus Keyamo, while
responding to Saraki’s allegation says Nigeria’s consumption of petrol
in March 2015, was 45 million Iitres per day.

This was under President Goodluck Jonathan’s
People’s Democratic Party (PDP) government which reportedly confirmed
importing 80 million litres of petrol in a day.

The APC spokesperson accused Saraki, the
Director General of the PDP Presidential Campaign, of attempting to
undermine Buhari’s campaign to remain in power, using the allegation and
therefore must be ignored.

“Nigerians should therefore ignore the tantrums of Dr. Bukola Saraki as they concern the oil and gas sector,” Festus Keyamo advises in his response.