I will sell Nigeria’s refineries to businessmen if elected president – Atiku

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has reiterated his resolve to sell Nigeria’s refineries to businessmen if elected president.

He said businessmen would better manage the country’s refineries if they were allowed to manage them.

Speaking in an interview with the Voice of America, VOA, Hausa Service, in Washington DC, he vowed to use the “power of government” to tackle oil theft in the South-South if he emerges Nigeria’s next president.

“This is a different problem that we have to see how we can use the power of the government to stop it because there must be cooperation between the NNPC and the security agencies who are responsible to look after oil pipelines laid,” he said.