Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has said he planned to reform the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) in 2018.
The former vice-president made this statement in a series of tweets on Wednesday,
According to him, the All Progressives Congress (APC) led government cut short his plans.
“I had in 2018 made public my plans to reform the NNPC to make it more profitable, transparent, and efficient. The APC-led government denigrated me for my patriotic vision,” he tweeted.
“But today, I am happy to note that the same government has taken a tentative step along the lines of the suggestions that I had made. It is a step in the right direction, but we are still far from what I had envisaged,” Abubakar said.
“I hope I’ll have the opportunity to complete the process of turning the NNPC into a genuinely world-class company in the mold of NLNG, Aramco of Saudi Arabia, and Petrobras of Brazil, where Nigerians and institutions will invest in.”
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