Petrol scarcity: Queues now to end April 7 — Kachikwu tells senate

Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, Tuesday, said that the lingering queues before the country’s petrol stations would disappear,Monday, April 7, 2016.
Kachikwu who also doubles as the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) disclosed this when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream) over the fuel scarcity ravaging the country.
The senate was, Monday, summoned to appear before the senate committee to explain the unending scarcity and also his utterances which claimed the situation will last for two more months.
“By 6th or 7th April, the long queues in filing stations would disappear,” Kachikwu assured, even as he further apologized to Nigerians over his statement that the biting fuel scarcity will linger till May.
“I do apologize for the comment that I made jocularly with my friends in the press about being a magician. It was not meant to offend Nigerians. I did not know that it would create the kind of hyperbole that it did. Let me first admit that I am not a typically experienced politician, I am a technocrat.
“Some of the phraseologies that I may use, while being acceptable in the arena in which I play, obviously will not be acceptable in the public political arena. So if anybody’s sensibilities were offended by my comment, I totally apologize,” said the minister.