Osinbajo spends Christmas at fuel depots to monitor supply

The Presidency says Vice-President Yemi
Osinbajo will be visiting fuel depots in Lagos on
Monday 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, in Abuja.
The post read: “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 News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalled that
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.
“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,” Osinbajo said in a statement issued by his
spokesman, Laolu Akande, on Monday.
According to the Vice President, the Buhari
administration is doing everything possible to
quickly resolve the fuel shortages experienced by
Nigerians.
It would be recalled that President Muhammadu
Buhari had on Sunday sympathized with Nigerians
over their suffering occasioned by the scarcity of
petrol across the country.
The President, who was reacting to the long
queues of motorists at various filling stations
across the country, in a statement personally
signed by him and posted on his twitter handle,
said the scarcity was regrettable.
He stated that he was being briefed regularly on
the matter by the NNPC and assured that the
situation would improve positively in the next few
days.
President Buhari disclosed that he had already
directed the regulators to step up their
surveillance and bring an end to hoarding of the
products and price inflation by marketers.