Transport unions and organisations have lauded the present administration for ameliorating their plight by providing their members with buses and ensuring uniform prices of petroleum products.

Assessing the Goodluck Jonathan administration’s first 100 days in office, Mr Monday Elimigbe, President, Drivers Welfare Club of Nigeria, told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja that the uniform price of N65 per litre of petrol was “a great achievement”.

Elimigbe, who decried the long hours spent in the queue for the purchase of petrol and its high cost in the past, said the present government had really eased the problem hitherto faced by motorists. He charged all the ministers to rise up to their responsibilities, saying that it was the only way the present administration could attain at least 90 per cent success in its goals and objectives.

According to him, the president has done well by making them to head the various ministries, so they should reciprocate the gesture by ensuring that his administration is not a failure.  “Sometime ago, there were cases where dealers in Abuja were selling petrol for N65 but on getting to the East they were selling it at N100 and the West N75, which means the price is not uniform. But now the price is uniform, which means the committee he has set up to look into that area has really done a marvellous job.

“On our part in the driving sector, I think this is one befitting thing he has done, which is keeping the nation today and drivers are happy because they can go to any filling station in the country and buy at a uniform rate,” he said. Elimigbe, however, appealed to the president to adopt the same method in the power sector to ensure efficient service delivery, but alleged that a lot of people in the sector were dubious. He accused PHCN officials of collaborating with sellers of power generating sets through unnecessary interruption of electricity supply to the detriment of the poor masses.

According to him, the only way out of the situation is to set up a similar committee as done in the petroleum industry, as this will go a long way in ridding the sector of corrupt practices. “Since he has succeeded in addressing the fuel problem, what is next is power.