I WILL SELL NIGERIA’S REFINERIES TO BUSINESSMEN IF ELECTED PRESIDENT – ATIKU
BY DAMILOLA LAWRENCE
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has restated his resolve to sell Nigeria’s refineries to businessmen if elected president come 2023.
He said that businessmen would better manage the country’s refineries if they were allowed to manage them. He made the declaration during an interview with the Voice of America, VOA, Hausa Service, in Washington DC.
He was asked about the refineries, he said, “My position on this is not new, I already said years ago, I will sell them, because if you give (them) to businessmen, they will run these refineries better.”
Atiku also vowed to deal with the issue of oil theft in the southern part of the country.
He vowed to use the “power of government” to tackle oil theft in the South-South if he emerges Nigeria’s next president.
“This is a different problem that we have to see how we can use the power of the government to stop it because there must be cooperation between the NNPC and the security agencies who are responsible to look after oil pipelines laid,” he said.
Nigeria’s three oil refineries in Kaduna, Warri and Port Harcourt have been dormant for years.
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