As the scarcity of the Premium Motor Spirit popularly called 'Petrol' continues to bite harder, a popular Abeokuta based fashion designer and the CEO of Grandeur Tailors and Clothiers, Toriola Isa Oladimeji, has offered to trade a premium kaftan worth of N130, 000 for 105 liters of fuel.

Toriola posted this offer on his official Facebook page, 'Toriola Isa Oladimeji' on Monday.

According to the post, the fuel should be delivered at his Oke-Sokori office in Ita-Eko area of Abeokuta, thr Ogun State capital.

"Let's deal. 105 liters of fuel for a premium kaftan worth of 130,000 naira.  To be delivered to Oke-Sokori Abeokuta," he wrote.

With this offer, the fashion designer who runs mostly on petrol powered generator is offering to buy a liter of fuel for as high as 1, 238 per liter.

Meanwhile, many of his followers have bombarded the comment section to negotiate the offer.

While some inquired if Toriola will pay for the delivery of the fuel, others are negotiating for a lesser liters of fuel for the N130, 000 worth of cloth.

One of the followers, Abu Azma wrote, "Will you pay for the delivery sir?", but Toriola said, "Abu Azma, How will I pay for the delivery? So if the person is bringing from Abuja, I will pay for the delivery."

"I have some I am not using for now, make we trade in. You pay for delivery, I deliver and you send my premium khaftan," Anu Azeem replied.

One of the followers however offered to enter into the deal but with 90 liters of fuel for the N130, 000 worth of Kaftan.

"90 litres jale jale, deal or no deal," Adeyefa Kolapo Hakeem II, another followers said.

This deal, if agreed by the two friends, will amount to a litter of fuel for N1, 444.

Meanwhile, another follower of the post, Michael Oyekan, advised the Tailor to convert his generator to use cooking gas, instead of petrol.

"Why not just convert to cooking gas, it is more economical and easy to purchase. I can convert it for you today if you want."

But another follower, AbdulWasiu Akande said the use of gas was no longer economical with the 'current price of gas.'

In another development, the fuel scarcity in Abeokuta disrupted the resumption of students for third-term academic activities.

According to a report by New Telegraph, Public and private schools in the state resumed on Monday after observing the second term break, but hundreds of students were not able to go to school due to the unavailability of public transport following fuel scarcity.

“Our correspondent who monitored school resumption observed that many schools recorded low turnout of students.”

Few stations that were dispensing fuel sold between N600 to N850 per litre to customers, leading to long queues.

“On Monday, many students were seen trekking back to their houses when they could not get taxis and motorcycles to convey them to their schools.

“A taxi driver, Akande Opeyemi who spoke with our correspondent lamented that he could no longer continue to buy fuel at an exorbitant price from the black market.

“Today, someone wanted to sell five-litre fuel for me at the rate of N7,000, but I can’t afford that, how much do I make as a taxi driver?

“I don’t think that our leaders understand the pains that we are going through because they don’t buy fuel and they don’t queue.

“Now schools have resumed and students are unable to go back to school, even my own children are at home, I can’t take them to school because I don’t have fuel in my car”, Akande said.

A filling station manager, Adigun Peter blamed the scarcity on panic buying following NNPC’s plan to phase out fuel importation.

“The government has not come out to say categorically what is causing the scarcity, but no doubt Nigeria will never go back to importation, this is the problem of stepping down importation and relying solely on our own.

“NNPC has given us a window that we should go and empty our imported fuel so that the NNPC price regime can take its full course, thereby causing panic buying and it has now become survival of the fittest.

“It has taken this station over three weeks to get just one supply and at a very exorbitant rate”, Adigun said.