There Will Be Nothing Like Fuel Scarcity in December — NNPC

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) has assured Nigerians that the country will not experience petrol scarcity in December and beyond, as it has made adequate arrangement for supply.
Chief financial officer of NNPC Ltd, Umar Ajia, said this in Abuja, when he appeared before an ad hoc committee of the House of Representatives on the fuel subsidy regime in Nigeria.

According to him, NNPC has put in place adequate measures to prevent petrol scarcity in the country, even after the 2023 general election.

His statement reads, “We have extended our Direct Sales Direct Purchase (DSDP) contract by six months, to sustain the supply of PMS throughout the country. The DSDP contract in reality ended in August and it is a very dangerous period to begin to retender for that because we are facing the winter, these are the difficult “embers months’’ that we normally avoid fuel scarcity.

“You know the scarcity in Nigeria is really associated with Christmas period so if you now tender, the tendering process will take one or two months. So, what the board approved is to extend the contract for six months such that we have passed the winter and we have passed the election, otherwise we could have problems during the election,’’ he said.