POLL: Who is to blame for fuel scarcity?

We can imagine how you’re feeling.

When you wake up in the morning and there’s power outage yet you have no petrol to fuel your generator or your car, and you’re wondering how you would run that barbing salon of yours when you finally get to work, life in Nigeria can be really hard.

Sometimes, you just feel like pulling out all the strands of hair on your head. At other times, you wonder if you should just throw yourself to the ground like a two-year-old throwing tantrums. There are even times when you’re so frustrated you ask yourself how you’ve managed not to run mad yet.

But who is putting you through all this?

Is it Goodluck Jonathan, the former president under whose regime, it is believed, subsidy corruption so flourished that marketers can just not stomach the cleanup currently going on in their business?

Is it President Muhammadu Buhari, who does not want to deregulate the industry and also wants to end subsidy corruption without instituting insulating the industry against the fightback from those who will not accept that it is no longer business as usual?

Is it Ibe Kachikwu, the minister of state for petroleum resources and group managing director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), who – directly executing the president’s policies – must have thought NNPC alone could meet the consumption demands of Nigerians?

Or is it even the members of the oil cartel, who continue to prioritise their selfish moneymaking interests over the general public good?

Let’s have your say, please?