Edeson Online News: Despite Backlash From Nigerians, Atiku Insists On Selling NNPC

Thursday 21 February 2019

Despite Backlash From Nigerians, Atiku Insists On Selling NNPC

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party on Wednesday in Kaduna reiterated his plan to privatise the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC), if elected president on Feb 23.

Abubakar spoke at a town hall meeting with ward, local government and state party leaders in the state at the Kaduna Trade Fair Complex.

He said that the NNPC had failed to serve the purpose for which it was established in 1977.

According to him, selling-off the Corporation and all the three refineries is the best option for the country, likening it to the sale of Nigerian Telecommunication Limited (NITEL).

Abubakar said Nigeria is among the biggest producers of crude, but lamented that the country still imports refined

products for local consumption at exorbitant prices to the detriment of the common man.
He said, if elected President, he would deregulate the NNPC and sell it to Nigerians. the way Obasanjo sold NITEL.
However, he forgot to mention that the sale of NITEL was disastrously done.
Under Obasanjo, NITEL went through several botched sales and management turnaround contracts. First, 51 per cent of the shares was sold to a group of investors under the trading name of Investors International London limited.
The sale was cancelled after the investors failed to pay. Then in 2003, , the government approved a management turnaround contract with a firm called Pentascope. The contract was cancelled in 2005 after it became clear Pentascope did not have the adequate resources to run NITEL.
In 2005, government again offered NITEL to Orascom. This failed again, leading the government to sell it to a subsidiary of Transcorp in 2007. The sale was revoked in 2009. In 2014, the firm was sold to NATCOM, a group of investors led by Tunde Ayeni. Ayeni since then has been running it as NTEL.

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Shittu Segun Sunday

Even Nigeria sef is not okay, he should it for China or america, it will be good.

Ifakunle Omoniyi

ATIKU IS NOT D SOLUTION TO NIGERIA

Anuforo Osinachi James

Whether we like it or not, in quote, "we the lazy youth of Nigeria are now the problem of Nigeria. APC is never an option for Nigeria, PDP is far better than APC but they are scam. If we the youth can come under one platform, put sentiment aside, greed aside, ethnicity/religion aside, we will overthrown these old gargo and deal ruthlessly and mercilessly to them if the need arises. So as it is now, let's keep complaining till the day we are tired. I pray God will over look our ignorance and intervene in his mighty way.
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Adeniyi Timothy Ayobami

The only link of todays evil in this country is this crude oil and nnpc per say. Lets decentralise this first and know that we can grow Nigeria with or without crude oil giving me and you the license to buy and refine crude oil on its own within four years of this privatization it will generate beyond measure