There are indications that fuel marketers have started adjusting their petrol pump prices as rumour of increase in price of petroleum gather momentum.
Already, some filling stations in Lagos and Ogun states increased the pump price of petrol to N170 per litre on Tuesday from N162 per litre.
Some of the stations were Capital Oil and Gas, Fatgbems and Amo Oil, all along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Another station, Enyo Retail, adjusted its pump price to N165 per litre from N162.
Some of the filling stations in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have also adjusted their fuel pump, survey by Veritynewsonline has revealed.
Even the mega station of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has adjusted their price from N159 to N162 since last.
The National Operation Controller, Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Mr Mike Osatuyi, said members of his association had to increase the pump price because they bought the product at N160-N161 from depot owners.
They picketed the facilities to protest their inability to get products due to a new payment method introduced by the Petroleum Products Marketing Company, a subsidiary of the NNPC.
“My members buying from DAPPMAN members are buying at N160-N161, and they will have to add their transportation costs to it. So, at what price do you want them to sell? Even that N170 is still very cheap,” Osatuyi said on Tuesday.
He said the PPMC had told marketers to register under the new payment method, called ‘PPMC Customer Express’, before they could buy products from it.