Motorists are besieging the MRS petrol stations following the crash of petrol price to N739 per litre across the retail outlets.

MRS petrol stations, an affiliate retail outlet to the Dangote Refinery, are consequently experiencing a surge in patronage as motorists throng the outlets for patronage.

Checks by The Nation yesterday revealed that at the MRS outlet in Alapere, Ketu, long queues of vehicles were seen waiting to purchase the product. The same situation prevailed in its stations in Palmgrove and Ebute-Metta.

But further findings revealed that some MRS stations as at yesterday are yet to reflect the new price as directed by Dangote Refinery management. For instance, in Alagbole/Akute, a border town between Lagos and Ogun states, MRS stations there sold at N800 per litre, N61 per litre higher than the prescribed price.

A motorist at the Alapere MRS station who identified himself as Kingsley Edwards, remarked that the queue at the station is a reflection of the competitive price the outlet offers.

“Why will I buy at outlets that sell as high as N890 per litre when I can buy here for over N150 cheaper? The queue here is worth the money I will be saving, so its fine by me,” Edwards said.

Other stations like Heyden sold at N887 per litre; Fatgbems, N881; NNPC, N820, among others.

Aside from MRS, the other retail outlets affiliated to Dangote Refinery in Abuja were yet to adjust their meters to N739 per litre.

Giving reasons for this development, the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) National President, Abubakar Maigandi, attributed this to the fact that such affiliates were yet to receive deliveries directly from the Dangote Refinery.

He said perhaps when the other affiliate stations receive the direct delivery from Dangote next week, they too would adjust their meters to N739/l.

According to him, some independent marketers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have crashed their pump prices below N800/l.

Asked why the other filling stations that registered with Dangote were selling above N739/litre, he said, “Some independent petroleum marketers are selling below N800 per litre now.

“There is still a little difference from the N739/litre that only MRS is selling because of the transportation.

“Very soon we may be selling at the same rate the way MRS is selling. The products we have now we transported it with our trucks.

“When Dangote starts giving us in its trucks we will sell the way MRS is selling. When we start receiving free delivery from Dangote’s trucks.”

The other filling stations that are registered with the refinery are Heyden, Ardova Petrol, Optima etc.

None of them vended the product for N739 at press time.

The Nation’s market survey however showed that Shema filling station sold the product for N836/l, AA Rano N840 and Sharon N840. (The Nation)