The Presidential candidate
of the Africa Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has accused former Vice
President and the flag bearer of the People Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku
Abubakar, of planning to sell Nigeria.
Sowore, who was a guest of
Bounce News’ #60Minutes, said if Atiku is elected in 2019, he would put up
Nigeria for sale on Alibaba.
His words, “The person who
unbundled NNPC probably didn’t even understand the meaning of unbundling. You
cannot unbundle NNPC and then make yourself the minister of Petroleum
Resources. And then he made the Chief of Staff the member of the board of
NNPC.”
On the proposed sale of
NNPC by Atiku, he said: “The man who wants to sell NNPC spent 8 years of his
life as the vice president of Nigeria selling off whatever they could sell, but
where did that take us?
“The NNPC that Atiku is
planning to sell, he is not going to use the money from that sale on Nigerian
people. In the first place, who is Atiku going to sell NNPC to? He is going to
sell it to Atiku.
“Atiku bought a bunch of
companies. He is one of a few Nigerians that cannot explain how he made his
wealth and if he is already telling you that he wants to sell NNPC, you can
understand that he is going to put Nigeria on Alibaba for sale.
“And that is why he is
leading a charge; they are charging towards Nigeria right now, a bunch of
criminals are waiting in the wings so that as soon as Atiku wins, they can’t
wait to sell whatever they can find in this country to themselves and take over
the country and all of you who are ‘Atikulating’ will find yourselves
completely ‘Atikulooted’ by the time they are done. That is what they are used
to doing.”
He said: “What we need to
understand is that this entity belongs to the Nigerian people. Run the place
transparently with very competent and honest Nigerians and make the wealth from
there available to the Nigerian people.
“You know what I would
prefer to do instead of giving oil blocks to politicians, I will give it to
universities, so that whatever profit they make, they can invest in education.
“They can invest it as part
of the university’s wealth to create more opportunity for young people to go to
school. I am just giving that as an example, it is not part of our manifesto
yet, but these are progressive and creative ways of investing in the future.”
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