Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has asked President Muhammadu
Buhari to resign over the “nonchalant attitude ” of the Federal
Government towards ending the fuel scarcity being experienced across the
country .
The governor said it was unfortunate that the fuel
scarcity was biting harder under the watch of the president as the
Minister of Petroleum .
He maintained that the All Progressives
Congress -led federal government was punishing Nigerians with fuel
scarcity so as to achieve its planned raise of petrol pump price from N
145 to not less than N 185 per litre .
The governor stated these
in a press release issued on Friday by his Special Assistant on Public
Communications and New Media , Lere Olayinka.
In Ado Ekiti , there
were long queues in Bovas filling stations in Adebayo and Bank roads as
well as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation mega station on
Iworoko Road.
Our correspondent observed that the long queue led to traffic gridlock on the ever busy Adebayo road.
Fayose said , “Already , fuel is being sold officially at between N 180 and N 200 at petrol stations across the country .
“
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 .
“ It is obvious that the
president has failed in all ramifications and he needs to do Nigerians a
favour by relinquishing the portfolio of minister of petroleum. ”
“
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 . ”
The
governor , who sympathised with Nigerians for the hardship said that
the only option to rescue Nigeria now “from being brought down
completely is to vote out Buhari and his APC in 2019 . ”