The National Chairman of the All
Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, has said the Presidential candidate of
the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, is pursuing a capitalist agenda
of the International Monetary Fund.
Atiku had publicly announced that
he would sell Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to some unnamed
investors as part of his plan to unbundle the and reduce the liabilities of the
state-owned oil company to the benefit of ordinary Nigerians.
However, Oshiomhole alleged,
during an interview on Channels Television on Monday, that Atiku planned to
sell the NNPC to western powers since no Nigerian can afford to purchase the
government oil company.
He said the former Vice-President
could float the naira and cause a dollar to equal N1, 000.
Oshiomhole said, “When you hear
Atiku say ‘I will privatise NNPC even if they will kill me’, I don’t even know
why he needed to add that one. Who will kill him? He is not speaking to you
because you don’t have money to buy NNPC. I don’t know how many Nigerians have
the money to buy NNPC.
“He is speaking to his western
audience. When he says he will float the naira, you know whose language, whose
values his parroting. Those are IMF agenda. He wants to float the naira.
“So, if in Atiku’s word, floating
the dollar means $1 to N1,000, so be it. You think he doesn’t know what he is
talking? Of course, there are countries which, if they have their way, they
want Nigeria to remain perpetually under-developed.”
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