Nigerians have called on the Federal Government to conduct fresh tests to confirm the quality of petrol sold in filling stations across the country.
This came amid allegations from a viral video that the petrol from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited doesn’t last long in fuel tanks.
This is even as the Petroleum Products Retail Outlet Owners Association of Nigeria said the fuel from the NNPC is of the quality standard.
On Saturday, the NNPC denied claims that it sells substandard petrol with a high burn rate. In a statement by its spokesperson, Olufemi Soneye, the NNPC said it was reacting to a viral video claiming that its petrol does not last long when used.
Our correspondent reports that a video had surfaced online where a content creator claimed he bought a litre of Dangote petrol from MRS filling station in Alapere, Lagos at N925 and the same litre from NNPC in Ojodu Berger at the rate of N945.
According to him, he poured the fuel into separate power generators and the one running on NNPC fuel stopped after 17 minutes while the Dangote petrol lasted until 30 minutes.
But the NNPC said the petrol purchased from its filling station in Ojodu Berger was from the Dangote refinery, a claim that was denied by some officials of the refinery who wondered why the NNPC dragged the refinery into the controversy.
