In the meantime, the Independent Marketers Association of Nigeria, (IPMAN), Western zone, has urged Nigerians to stop panic buying of petrol, assuring them that fuel scarcity would soon ease off.

Its western zone chairman, Alhaji Dele Tajudeen, who gave the assurance in Ibadan yesterday, clarified that there was no directive stopping its members from continuing with their operations, pointing out that the speculation on shutting down of filling stations was not from the association, but from its Maiduguri Depot, which does not affect members of IPMAN in other parts of Nigeria, particularly in the South-West
region.

He was reacting to the speculations making the rounds that IPMAN had directed its members to stop operations and shut down their filling stations to protest hike in the price of fuel.