According to a news shared by the News Agency Of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday, November 18, The Peoples Democratic Party’s Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, was quoted to have said that if elected, he would sell 90 per cent of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and just retain 10 per cent of the company for the Federal Government, after which he also plans to sell all four national refineries. 
Reacting to this statement, The Atiku-Agbaje Media Engagement Network has called his attention to such policy by urging him to retract his proposed policy. The Executive Director of the support group, Felix Oboagwina, shared his stance on the policy in a statement he issued to NAN in Lagos on Monday, November 19. Oboagwina was quoted to have said that: “The Late President Umar Yar’Adua had won accolades for reversing the privatisation of the nation’s four refineries; this demonstrates that Nigerians wanted the government’s vigorous involvement in the running of the corporation. 
“We urge Atiku to direct his mind towards probing NNPC, recovering looted funds and positioning the corporation for accountability, integrity, professionalism, and profitability if elected,”. He also urged Atiku to rather focus on perfecting, signing and implementing the Petroleum Industry Bill within six months of coming into power. He reiterated that: “AAMEN would want Atiku to re-open scandalous NNPC cases like the $25 billion scam alarm raised by the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu.
It is not always that a drastic solution should be visited on a drastic problem and for anyone to say that selling off the country’s shares in NNPC would be the only solution to the rot in the system simply means that corruption would have won,” he concluded.
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