The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has assured that there would be an adequate supply of fuel for the upcoming elections, following concerns raised by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over the lack of fuel. The assurance was made on Tuesday by Mele Kyari, NNPC’s Group Chief Executive Officer during the Commission’s visit to NNPC Towers led by its Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, adding that NNPC has always supported INEC
Kyari said, “We’ll work with your logistics team to identify those areas where we may not have presence so that we can bring in other marketing companies into the conversation so that the products are made available to all the 100,000 vehicles that you have indicated.
“There will be no difficulty doing this. We have a presence; we are everywhere. But where we are not, we will provide commercial conversation between the Commission and other marketing companies so that when you need this product, you will have it.
“Also, in addition to this, we’re the only company that had floating mega stations in the country. We will also look at this and see how we can make it available for the purpose of marine operations in the riverine areas of our country.
“I assure you, just as you have indicated, we have taken very extreme measures to see that we can contain the current distribution challenges that we have and we believe that within the next one week, there will be significant relief, if not elimination, of the current situation that we’re facing.”
He stated that arrangements would be made to ensure that fuel is made available to INEC vehicles to enable it to carry out its constitutional election duty.
