PDP presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar yesterday in Kaduna reiterated his resolve to privatise the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), if elected President in Saturday’s polls.
Atiku, who spoke while interacting with stakeholders from the 23 local government areas of Kaduna State at the Trade Fair Complex, said his resolve to sell the national asset was informed by the fact that NNPC has since inception in 1963 failed to meet its expectation of refining crude oil for the country’s consumption.
He insisted that he would sell off the NNPC to provide more development.
His decision, Atiku added, was based on the fact that only very few were benefiting from the operations of the national asset at the expense of the Nigerian people.
Towards this, Atiku challenged President Muhammadu Buhari, who is equally the Minister of Petroleum, to relinquish the running of the NNPC to ordinary people to show his level of sincerity.
He said contrary to the widespread rumours that he would sell the NNPC to himself, “the NNPC will be sold to Nigerians with money to buy it.”
Atiku added that PDP under the President Olusegun Obasanjo administration has made many Nigerians millionaires.
“Its 63 years that Nigeria found crude. But up till now, we are yet to refine petrol and kerosene by ourselves. We have refinery in Kaduna, Warri and Port Harcourt ,but saboteurs stopped them from working. “
He also said his government would not be run by any cabal as is being experienced by the present government.
He averred that the present government of the All Progressive Congress (APC) has inflicted the nation with pains and poverty because, according to him, the President was not in-charge.
On his part, the National Chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche Secondus told the state stakeholders to resist every form of provocation to warrant postponement of election in the state.
According to him, “The governor is running from one place to another seeking federal support to shift election; all such efforts will fail.”
I hope you will not sell nigeria
pls dont sell Nigeria
That’s why we will not vote you to be our president
I HE DOESN’T KNOWN THE MEANING OF PRIVATISE
I think NNPC will be more productive and accountable if privatised. Than remaining a conduit pipe for fraudsters that it is now.
You will sale in prison.
Privatization is the in thing if properly managed. Am very sure, it will be done rightly this time around. Remember telecommunications privatisation, Nigerians are now reaping the good fruit of it, isn’t it?
You will never win the election by GOD willing .
HE GO WIN BY God Grace .Amen
Truth is bitter
Up Atiku
You will not win.