President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman, Femi Adesina
has said Nigerians would survive the current fuel scarcity.
Adesina said heavens would not fall over the current fuel
scarcity and Nigerians will survive like always.
He stated this in his latest weekly article on Thursday
titled “KNOCK, KNOCK. WHO’S THERE?”
The presidential aide recalled that Nigerians had
experienced a similar situation in the past and they
survived.
Adesina’s article reads partly: “It’s obviously not the
easiest of times in our country currently, what with severe
fuel scarcity exacerbating the other existential challenges
we have been coping with.
“In some areas, there’s no fuel, no electricity, thus
translating to a severe energy crisis
“There were cases of bad fuel before in this country. We
slept for days, weeks on end at petrol stations, queuing for
fuel. We survived. We will survive again. Las las.”
Nigerians have been battling with fuel scarcity since
February.
The scarcity is said to have been caused by the
importation of adulterated fuel.
However, the Federal Government had assured Nigerians
that normalcy would soon return because it has enough