The national youth leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Dayo Israel, in a tweet recently decried the current fuel scarcity in the country, stating that in the last seven years, Nigeria had always enjoyed sufficient fuel supply during Christmas.

The APC national youth leader on his Twitter handle, @dayoisreal, alleged sabotage in the current fuel scarcity, claiming that it was deliberately targeted at ruining the chances of the party in the forthcoming elections.

He wrote: “Over the last 7years, we have always had fuel availability every Christmas. It was even a major scorecard that December fuel crisis came to end. How come the December before election, suddenly fuel became scarce, reason am! To make APC look bad to Nigerians? INTERNAL SABOTEURS,”

As at the time of this report, the tweet had garnered over one million views and over 3000 quote tweets.


Verification

Findings by Daily Trust showed that in the last seven years of President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, Nigeria had experienced fuel scarcity across the country especially, during the 2017 Christmas period.

Recall that during the Christmas of 2017, many Nigerians were left stranded at filling stations as the fuel scarcity worsened across the country.

Thousands of motorists were queuing up to buy fuel till early hours of Christmas day, as many filling stations did not sell petrol and the few that sold did so at exorbitant prices.

This is despite the repeated assurance by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (now NNPCL) to Nigerians that it had and was distributing more than enough petrol for local use.

But transport fares were hiked while many motorists were stranded without vehicles to travel that year.

As the fuel crisis worsened, many Nigerians accustomed to travelling to their home states for Christmas were stranded at motor parks. Most Nigerians couldn’t afford the almost 100 per cent increase in transport fares or had to cancel their journey for insufficient transportation.

Subsequently, while fuel scarcity persisted three days to the 2017 Christmas, the NNPC and marketers traded blame over the acute commodity shortage.

While the NNPC said marketers hoarded products following alleged plan to increase pump price, the marketers accused the oil giant of making the commodity available in short supply.

However in a statement the then NNPC Group Managing Director, Late Maikanti Baru, claimed some marketers, in their quest to cash in on the situation, suddenly started hoarding products.

The statement signed by the former NNPC spokesman, Ndu Ughamadu, said, “We swiftly swung into action by doubling our supply nationwide. At the time the rumour started, we had about 30-day sufficiency.

“The normal daily supply to the nation is 700 trucks, equalling about 27-30 million litres per day.”


Verdict: False

Background

The APC national youth leader is not the only person alleging sabotage in the current fuel crisis as the party’s presidential candidate had also made the same allegations.

During a campaign rally in Abeokuta, Ogun State on Wednesday, the APC presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, said the scarcity was perpetrated by powerful forces in government to sabotage the elections.

Conclusion:

Findings by Daily Trust showed that Nigeria had experienced fuel scarcity during the Christmas period in the last seven years. Thus, the claim by the APC national youth leader is false.

https://dailytrust.com/fact-check-was-there-no-fuel-scarcity-in-last-7yrs-as-apc-youth-leader-claimed/

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Don't mind them we know who the real liar is. The one who claims he single handedly develop Lagos state.
We go vote wisely.

Dayo Israel replaced his brains with big stomach. Afo nshi

Just look at this bulaba

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The one wey shock me pass na the claim that Bullion Van missed its way & mistakenly entered Tinubu's house.

APC was built on the foundation of lies.
That's why they recruited liars.
Lai Mohammed
FFK
Festus Keyamo

Who be this one?


Yoouth of no nation

Must be high on something

Is there any need to fact check him?
You are giving him the prominence he certainly does not deserve.

Most people in that group would need psychiatric evaluation moments after the election. Just because they are not putting food in their nose doesn't mean they are okay.

Narcotics consumption has debilitating effects on brain functioning.

Defending APC has never been an easy task

Urchins must always have to urchinate;
to safeguard their monthly stipend

Haha

No integrity,always churning out lies

Sometimes i just wonder how someone will still be pushing to vote APC into power again after this long 8 years we have endured lot of lies and hardship from this Government. Its beyond tribalism i just can't figure out.

Apc can actually lie and make Nigerians look stupid. They feel we can’t do anything even

Okay

Nothing is ever right with the APCheat !!

How does the past affect the untold hardship now?!!

Most PDAPC people are mor0ns !!!

Brb

It still wouldn't stop the work God has started. This is just a bend and not the end. Jagaban is coming!

How many times do we have to tell you that only fools support APC You go dey verify fool

1.I was laughing when the guy said that...and many APC guys have said it.

2.The truth is, there will always be scarcity when government controls the prices.

Fuel subsidy is the money paid by government to the industry./sector...to compensate them for selling fuel below what it costs to produce and transport , as well as other sundry costs...which is the market price.

When the market price of fuel exceeds or goes beyond what the subsidy paid can cover, scarcity results, as it becomes financially difficult for the petroleum sector to continue supplying fuel at a loss.

Government has two choices

1.Raise prices to a point where the subsidy can cover losses...which manifests as a rise in fuel prices

2.COMPLETELY remove subsides.


For more information here...read the article Reflections on fuel subsidy regime

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This is just to frustrate Tinubu's chance but the plot will Fail.

BUHARÌ the Bastard fool ani cow is only deceiving himself.

Lai infected them all 😀

Historically, there's always fuel scarcity pre election periods as political will is low during this time.
Even with the threat of DSS I bought fuel today at 250 Naira/litre