Petrol Should Not Be Sold More Than N70 – PDP

With an honest and transparent administration of our national production capacity and potentials, the local price of petrol should not be more than N70 per litre.

This is the position of the People’s Domestic Party (PDP), warning that any increase in the pump price of petrol would amount to a direct invitation to a mass protest in the country.

The opposition party gave the warning to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government in a statement on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan.

The PDP was reacting to the report that some filling stations were selling petrol at N212 per litre, a situation that fueled panic buying of fuel in some parts of the country.

The Nigerian authorities have insisted that the government does not plan to increase the price in March, but the PDP insisted that any contemplation for N212 pump price would be pushing Nigerians to the wall.

“Our party holds that the N212 per litre reportedly contemplated in the March pricing template by the APC administration, is wicked, insensitive, and callous.

“It is a barefaced fact that there is no way that Nigerians can survive such hike in fuel price, which will worsen the already agonising economic situation in the country,” the statement said.

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The opposition alleged that, “The continuous unjustified increase in the price of fuel is a deliberate scheme by the APC, through which their leaders fleece Nigerians of billions of naira on daily basis.

“Nigerians have endured enough under the suppressive, corrupt, insensitive and incompetent APC administration and it is our concern that any further increase in fuel price may become the last straw that might break the camel’s back as already cautioned by our party last month.”

The PDP cautioned that with the unemployment and other challenges facing the country, mass protest could be the aftermath of any increase in fuel price.

It then called on the APC and its administration to save the country from any trouble that could arise as a result of fuel increase.

It warned that every contemplation to increase the fuel price, especially at a time Nigerians were expecting a downward review of prices, must be shelved.

It then called on Nigerians to remain calm but very alert in readiness, within the ambit of the laws and granted opportunities under the country’s democracy, to defend the collective wealth of Nigeria.