The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has filed a lawsuit against President Bola Tinubu, requesting a reduction in the petrol price from N845 per litre to N600 per litre.
The organisation, in a suit numbered FHC/ABJ/CS/1361/2024, filed last Friday by SERAP’s lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, at the Federal High Court in Abuja, is challenging the president over “the failure to direct the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited to reverse the apparently unlawful increase in the pump price of petrol.”
The lawsuit also addresses the “failure” to investigate allegations of corruption and mismanagement within the national oil firm.
The statement, made available to newsmen on Sunday, lists the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, and the NNPCL as respondents.
SERAP is asking the court “to compel President Tinubu to direct the NNPCL to reverse the unjust, illegal, unconstitutional, and unreasonable increase in the price of petrol from N845 per litre to N600 per litre,” and urges him to “direct” the AGF and relevant anti-corruption agencies to investigate the allegations of corruption and mismanagement within the NNPC.
