Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party's (PDP) presidential candidate, has reaffirmed his intention to sell Nigeria's refineries to investors if elected.
If businessmen were given control over the nation's refineries, according to Atiku, they would be managed more effectively. In a Washington, DC, interview with the Voice of America, VOA, Hausa Service, he made the statement.
Atiku said when asked about the refineries: "My opinion on this is not new; I had said years ago, I will sell them, because if you give [them] to businesses, they will operate these refineries better."
Additionally, the PDP candidate for president promised to address the problem of oil theft in the southern region of the nation.
If Atiku is elected as the next president of Nigeria, he has promised to utilise the "might of government" to combat oil theft in the South-South.
Because the NNPC and the security services are in charge of watching over oil pipelines laid, he said, "this is a separate situation that we have to explore how we can use the power of the government to stop it."
The three oil refineries in Nigeria—at Kaduna, Warri, and Port Harcourt—have remained idle for a long time.