Despite FG slash, petrol sells for N110 in Sokoto

Petroleum marketers in Sokoto and its environs have continued to retain the N97 old pump price of petrol, contrary to the N87 price per litre announced by the federal government on Sunday.

Correspondents of NAN who monitored the petroleum supply situation in Sokoto on Monday and Tuesday reported that the commodity was being sold for between N97 and N110 per litre.

It was also observed that the situation was the same at most of the major and independent petroleum marketers’ filling stations.

It was also observed that the NNPC mega stations on Gusau Road, like several others located in the town, were closed.

Ibrahim Musa, a petrol attendant at Mobile filling station, told NAN that the station was “yet to receive new supplies of the product based on the new pump price”.

Another attendant at on Gusau Road, also said: “We are ready to adjust to the new price whenever we receive an official confirmation”.

It was, however, learnt that one of the NNPC mega stations on the road sold the product at the old rate of N97 per litre.

All efforts to get comments from the Sokoto Zonal Office of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) proved abortive.

Salihu Moriki, DPR controller, was said to have travelled out of Nigeria for an official assignment, while Kaka Sheikh, his deputy, was on annual leave and the acting controller was out of the office when NAN correspondents visited on Tuesday.