IPMAN had earlier directed its members to suspend payment for products from source until further notice.
Mr Obi said the association decided to close all the depots and stations after a series of meetings with some stakeholders over police harassment of its leaders.
IPMAN president said the body was working with the federal government to resolve fuel scarcity.
Petrol stations in Ikeja, Ejigbo, Iyana-Ipaja and Oshodi areas of Lagos, were observed on Monday to be selling petrol at between N170 to N180 per litre.
“Part of the ways we can reduce their activities is for governments to begin the establishment of modular refineries in some of these areas.”
There are independent marketers still selling petrol from between N180 to N200 per litre, especially in the interior parts of Lagos and Ogun.
They advised the government to initiate its mass transit programme to reduce cost of movement of goods and persons.
“We are calling on the Nigeria Police Force to ensure that such persons are apprehended to forestall breakdown of law and order.”
“The police invasion of IPMAN secretariat is in total violation of the order of the apex court.”
Marketers should be allowed to go out and bring in petrol instead of only the NNPC importing the product.
