By Harry Awurumibe, Editor Abuja Bureau
Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have been compelled to pass the night at filling stations to buy the Premium Motor Spirits (PMS) popularly called petrol which have become very scarce at the station since last week even as the long queues have refused to abate.
Prompt News can confirm that many filling stations in FCT and its environs have since last weekend ran out of PMS and are unable to dispense the products to motorists.
With the petroleum product very hard to be obtained easily, many residents decided to sleep at various filling stations in the city in the desperate efforts to buy the product.
A resident of Galadimawa within Abuja municipality, Abubakar Maiko narrated how he had to pass the night on Sunday at one of the filling stations along the busy Airport Road near Lugbe in a desperate attempt to fuel his car which he uses a kabu kabu within the metropolis.
Another FCT resident, Mathew Obika of Kubwa told Prompt News that he ran out of fuel while returning from work on Monday night and had to sleep at a petrol station along the Expressway yet he could not buy the product.
The story is the same across the FCT as many have parked their vehicles at home while others who ran out of fuel at major streets abandoned them their in search of the product.
Efforts to get officials of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) at its corporate headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday to shed light on the acute scarcity of petrol for almost two weeks in Abuja did not yield any fruit.
