The All Progressives Congress has urged the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria to urgently resolve its leadership crisis that led to artificial fuel scarcity in the South East.
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Members of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Enugu Depot, have shutdown filling stations across Anambra, Ebonyi and Enugu states over alleged leadership crisis.
Motorists and commuters in Onitsha and its environs on Tuesday expressed dismay over the closure of operations by petroleum marketers in Anambra, saying it had caused them undue sufferings.
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria on Friday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, gave its full backing to the re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari in the forthcoming presidential election.
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria on Sunday commended the Supreme Court judgment which declared Chinedu Okoronkwo as the substantive National President of the association.
Olufemi Adewole, Executive Secretary, Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria, said in a statement in Lagos that offers by government failed to meet the legitimate demands of the association.
It also said in a statement by its National Secretary, Alhaji Danladi Pasali, in Abuja on Wednesday, that the threat was an attempt to disrupt the relative peace in the downstream oil sector.
The IPMAN chairman in the state, Alhaji Bashir Dan-Malam, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Kano on Tuesday.
The Department of Petroleum Resources has appealed to members of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria in Cross River not to take advantage of the festive period to hike pump prices.
The President of the Association, Chinedu Okonkwo, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Friday.
This was contained in a statement issued and signed by the National Coordinator of BCO, Alhaji Pasali Danladi, on Saturday in Lagos and made available to newsmen.
Alhaji Debo Ahmed, Chairman Western Zone, IPMAN, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Lagos against the backdrop of some moribund depots.
IPMAN had directed members to close their outlets across the state on Wednesday to protest the demolition of a member’s filling stations by the Anambra government over alleged wrong site of the outlets.
Petroleum marketers in Anambra have shut their filling stations in protest for the demolition of a member’s property by the state government.
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria has called on the National Assembly to expedite the passage of the Petroleum Industry and Governance Bill to attract investments to the oil and gas sector.
Alhaji Debo Ahmed, the Chairman, Western Zone of IPMAN, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that the refinery would address the lingering crisis of importing refined products into the country.
Alhaji Ayo Alanamu, Chairman of the depots, made the commendations in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Lagos.
IPMAN had in July 2014 acquired over 1,000 hectares of land to build refineries that would produce 200,000 barrels of petrol per day at Itobe in Kogi State and Abbe in Bayelsa State.
Chief Ikechukwu Nwankwo, Chairman of IPMAN, Enugu Chapter, lamented the development in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Awka.
The Chairman of Board of Trustees of the IPMAN, Alhaji Aminu Abdulkadir, made this known in Abuja on Sunday when he responded to questions on the resurfacing of petrol queues in filling stations in Abuja and environs.