BEVERLY HILLS, December 25, (THEWILL) –Â The Presidency has revealed that Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo will be visiting fuel depots in Lagos on Monday, December 25, to monitor the loading of trucks and to ensure steady supply of petrol to designated filling stations.
This information is contained on the twitter handle of the Presidency Nigeria, tagged; @NGRPresident.
“This morning the Vice-President is visiting fuel depots in Lagos to monitor the loading of trucks, and to ensure distribution is going on without a hitch,” the post read.
The Vice-President had on Christmas Eve made an unexpected stopover to some filling stations at Lekki area and Lagos Island to see that things were moving on very well.
“It’s such a shame that Christmas has been, to some extent, with this sort of discomfort. This is deeply regretted,” NAN quoted him.
“And l know that, despite the resilience and strength of people in Lagos and the Nigerian people, we would see ourselves through this and will enjoy our Christmas and have a great New Year.”
According to the Vice President, the Buhari administration is doing everything possible to quickly resolve the fuel shortages experienced by Nigerians addig that the Federal Government was moving quickly to solve the fuel crisis and reduce the difficulties encountered by Nigerians.
Osinbajo stated that he was going around with the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, to ensure that the trucks were being loaded from all the depots.
He stated that the team was also looking at the filling stations to see that things were moving on very well.
“We are trying to move as quickly as we can. Obviously, people have gone through a lot of pain and anguish in the past few days, and that is deeply regretted,” he continued.
“We were trying to do what we can to move as quickly as possible and there are certainly enough products to be able to solve the problem.
“We will be able to solve the problem; the short period of scarcity is quite a bit of burden, but we know that so long as products are enough and the trucks coming out and feeding the stations, this will be over very soon.
“The GMD of the NNPC is also working in Abuja to see that things are moving quickly and we are moving around the country.
“So we expect that it will be resolved very quickly.”
