By Gabriel Enogholase

BENIN—AS fuel scarcity bites harder across the country, civil society groups in Edo State have faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s frequent trips abroad and advised him to cut down on the trips and face the economic difficulties Nigerians are going through.

The groups, on the platform of Talakawa Parliament and Returnee Foundation and Traders Welfare Union of Nigeria, lamented the lingering economic crunch that has  affected most Nigerian homes, saying the President should stay at home to proffer solutions to the fuel crisis and other problems.

The groups who called for the resignation of the President from office if he was unable to solve the economic woes and scarcity of petroleum products which it said hasd entered four months, said Nigerians did not deserve what was happening to them from the man who promised them  change during the electioneering campaign last year.

Presidents of the Talakawa Parliament  Returnee Foundation and Traders Welfare Union of Nigeria, Kola Edokayi and Solomom Okoduwa, who spoke in Benin, Edo State, yesterday, during a peaceful protest at the premises of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, on the lingering fuel scarcity, said it was out of place and painful to see the President touring the countries of the world without realizing  that  Nigerians were being ravaged by poverty, hunger and unemployment.

“Nigerians are tired of the daily excuses from the government. We want to see action taken, not excuses. We want employment for the youths, we want to see food on our tables. We want to see petroleum products at our petrol stations,” they said.