The State Commissioner for Information, Youth and Sports, Mr Lanre Ogunsuyi, described the situation as unfortunate. Scarcity of petrol has became unbearable in Ekiti as motorists now sleep in filing stations across the state to have the opportunity to buy.News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some of the motorists that NAN correspondent met at the filing station on Wednesday morning were busy washing their faces with water.One of the motorists, Bolaji Oguntuase, told NAN that he was disappointed with the fuel marketers for hoarding the product and making them to suffer under the sun all day.He said many of the marketers had fuel, but deliberately decided not to sell to create artificial fuel scarcity.” I slept inside my car outside the compound of NNPC before I could buy fuel this morning,” he said.Another motorist, Bidemi Owolabi, said he did not expect the marketers to punish motorists by hoarding fuel.
