An independent petroleum marketer trading under the Gastab Oil and Gas Monday opened the fourth filling station on Ibadan/Oyo road at Mokola in Ibadan with motorists trooping in to buy the premium motor spirit, petrol at N142 per litre.
Speaking with journalists who also thronged the place to buy the commodity, the owner, Saheed Omogbolahan Adigun (a.k.a Oba Mobil) expressed his joy that the dream to open the station has come to fruition.
Omogbolahan said each time he sees people suffering to get the fuel to power their vehicle or for other commercial and domestic use, he was always asking God to grant him the grace to put smiles on the faces of the suffering masses.
Recalling that since December 2017 when petrol became very scarce and people were suffering to get it at official pump price of N145, he was selling below the pump price between N141 to N143, all in an effort to mitigate the suffering if the already traumatised and hapless masses.
He hinted that little gain with God’s blessing was more beneficial than bigger profits margin without corresponding achievements that would be long lasting.
While extolling the virtue of his boss who doubles as the National Chairman of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) of NUPENG, Chief Salimon Akanni Oladiti as the brain behind the success story of Gastab, Omogbolahan was quick to appeal to the Federal Government to be more proactive and deal with the issue of occasional scarcity and saboteurs in the sector.