The queues at the filling stations continued unabated on Wednesday with most filling stations dispensing their petrol at over N175 per litre.
The situation is expected to get worse as oil marketers have served notice to go on strike from next week if the government fails to pay them the money they are owed.
Many filling stations, especially those belonging to members of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, were shut due to lack of products to sell to customers.
The queues first manifested in the Federal Capital Territory over a month ago, and has now spread to Lagos and some other cities in Nigeria.
Oil marketers had last week warned that Nigeria could witness “the mother of all queues” soon if the Federal Government failed to pay the 12 months bridging claims being owed operators in the downstream oil sector.
The marketers denied being paid N74bn by the Federal Government as bridging claims for the transportation of petroleum products.
This followed a claim by the Federal Government through its Nigeria Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority last week that it paid N74bn as bridging claims to oil marketers for the transportation of petroleum products across the country in seven months.
The Secretary, Abuja-Suleja IPMAN, Mohammed Shuaibu, whose unit covers Abuja, Kogi, Niger and parts of Nasarawa and Kaduna, told The Punch on Wednesday that though some members had confirmed the receipt of payments, a host of others had yet to receive theirs.
