Fuel price: Build your refinery – PETROAN to Nigerian workers demanding N500/litre petrol

The Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria, PETROAN, has reacted to the request by civilian servants nether the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to trim the terms of petrol to N500 per litre.

In an interrogation with DAILY POST on Monday, the National President of PETROAN, Billy Gillis-Harry, said reducing the terms of petrol to N500 per litre would necessitate a miracle.

According to him, the request does not bespeak the existent realities of the downstream petroleum market, making it practically intolerable to trim the terms of petrol to N500 per litre.

He noted that Nigerians and the Federal Government cannot hazard returning to the epoch of substance subsidies, which, according to him, pushed the state to the brink.

Gillis-Harry added that those advocating for petrol to beryllium sold astatine N500 per litre should physique their ain refineries and filling stations to dispense the merchandise astatine that price.

“Those demanding N500 per litre substance should spell and physique their refinery, get their log...