The Federal Government has said that petrol scarcity which has lingered for about two weeks, is due inspection failure, not the absence of products.
It also explained that queues by motorists persisted in various filling stations in Abuja and neighbouring states of Nasarawa and Niger state, as well as in other locations across the country.
This is coming as the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Timipre Sylva expressed regrets over the importation of substandard petrol into the country and its attendant adverse impact nationwide.
His Senior Adviser, Media and Communications, Horatius Egua in a statement in Abuja, said the Minister blamed inspection failure as caused of petrol scarcity, as he apologise to Nigerians on behalf of the Federal Government.
Sylva however commended the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC Limited for showing concern to the plight of Nigerians by coming forward with an apology.
Meanwhile, the Coalition of Concerned Northern Forum has called on the Federal Government to sack the top management staff of the NNPC over the lingering fuel scarcity within 72 hours.
Chairman of Ibrahim Bature; and Spokesperson the group Abdulsalam Kazeem, in a statement jointly signed in Kaduna warned that the failure of the government to act would lead to mass protest.
