The Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party
(PDP) Atiku Abubakar on Wednesday in Kaduna reiterated his resolve
to privatise the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), if
elected President on Saturday.
Atiku, who reiterated this while interacting with stakeholders
from the 23 local government areas of Kaduna state at the trade
fair complex, said his resolve to sell national assets was informed
by the fact that NNPC has since inception 1963 failed to meet its
expectation of refining crude oil for the country’s
consumption.
He insisted he will sell off the NNPC to provide more
development, stressing his decision is against the backdrop that
only very few are benefiting from the operations of the national
asset at the expense of the masses.
Atiku challenged President Muhammadu Buhari, who doubles as the
Minister of Petroleum, to relinquish the running of the NNPC to
ordinary people to show his level of sincerity.
Contrary to the widespread spread rumors that he will sell the
NNPC to himself, the former Vice President said: “The NNPC will be
sold to Nigerians with money to buy it.”
He explained: “Its 63 years Nigeria found crude but up till now
we are yet to refine petrol and kerosine by ourselves.
“We have refineries in Kaduna, Warri and Port Harcourt but
saboteurs stopped them from working.”
He also said his government will not be run by any cabal such as
experienced by the present government.
He averred that the present government of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) has inflicted the nation with pains and poverty
because according to him, the President is not in-charge.
Speaking on the President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent security
directive on ballot snatching, Atiku said PDP will not tolerate any
form of ballot snatching and indulge in any act whatsoever against
the electoral law.
He insisted the order to kill any ballot box snatcher is
undemocratic.
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 urge us all to be resolute to vote Atiku Abubakar in the
coming election and all other candidates of the PDP in all the
elections.
“Resist all forms of provocation, because what the government of
the day wants is to cause violence so as to shift election
particularly in the strong holds of the PDP, we must not fall for
their plans.”
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