President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that the
pump price for Petrol in Nigeria remains N87 per litre and that is not about to
change anytime soon.
The President made this known while presenting the 2016
Budget to the National Assembly on Tuesday. This is coming on the heels of hues
and cries and various rumours making the rounds that the government was
thinking of jacking up the price of the product.
In the last two months, Nigerians have been struggling to
find the product to buy due to failure of petroleum marketers to make the
product available for purchase at filling stations. This prompted a lot of
Nigerians to start speculating that the government was responsible for creating
artificial scarcity in order to jack up the price of the product.
However, the President’s statement may have put all that to
rest if his body language was anything to go by. Nigerians would be forgiven if
they choose not to believe the President considering how they have been misled
and lied to in the past; but it does seem that we have a President who is
prepared to keep his word this time around.
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