Residents of Ogun State have started feeling the effect of the fuel shortage having its toll on the whole nation.

This is as most of the filling stations in the State declined to give fuel to customers on Thursday night.

Recall that numerous filling stations across the country have actually stopped operations due to the adulterated fuel in circulation.

As vehicle drivers move from one place to another searching for fuel, other locals were seen with jerry cans seeking to purchase fuel for their power generators, grinding machines and others.

Our reporter, who went round Abeokuta metropolis, observed that the NNPC mega station in Oke-Mosan had its gate near to consumers.

The Fatgbems filling station, opposite the NNPC, which was earlier selling to people, later on stopped operations, even as vehicle owners declined to leave its gate.

Our reporter reports that there were no activities at Mobil in Onikolobo, World Oil in Okelewo, Sunny Yinka in Leme, Conoil Ibara, MRS Isale, Igbein among others. Nevertheless, there were long lines at few of the stations offering fuel

like Prudent in Iyana Mortuary and Fatgbems in Isale Igbein. It was gathered that the situation is the very same in other cities throughout Ogun State, where people struggled to purchase fuel for both personal and commercial usage.

A fuel attendant, who did not want his name in print, confided in our press reporter that some stations stopped giving fuel to customers to avoid damaging their engines with the adulterated fuel.

The attendant said some stations with quality PMS stopped dispensing for reasons best understood to the management.

Meanwhile, citizens of Ogun State have gotten in touch with the Federal Government to find a long lasting option to the problem, stating they might not be fighting absence of electrical energy and absence of fuel at the exact same time.

“Government ought to do something about this fuel shortage. The suffering is excessive. There is no light, no fuel to power generator and the heat is getting too much. We can’t even pump water. We are tired of this,” Elijah Adeyanju said in Abeokuta.

Sulaimon Moshood, a local of Ipokia, stated, “No light, no fuel; gas is very pricey, even rice is becoming too expensive. May Allah assist us.”