Labour Says Petrol Scarcity Eroding Confidence in Buhari

The labour movement in Ekiti State has pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari to fight the cabals causing persistent oil scarcity in the country, saying the one month petrol scarcity has begun to erode Buhari's popularity and the confidence Nigerians reposed in his government to bring desired changes in the system.

Speaking in Ado Ekiti on Saturday, labour, under the auspices of Public Service Joint Negotiating Council, said what Buhari promised Nigerians was a new lease of life.

The JNC Secretary in Ekiti, Comrade Ayodeji Oladele urged the Nigerian leader to muster the political will to be able to deal with the cabals in the oil sector bringing unnecessary hardship to innocent Nigerians.

Oladele posited that what the Minister of State for Petroleum and the Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr Ibe Kachikwu told Nigerians was that there was sufficient petrol in circulation, which suggested that the product was being hoarded to force the price up for marketers to make outrageous profit.