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NNPC should have privatised refineries before rehabilitation – Atiku Says

He questioned the current administration’s decision to privatize the Port Harcourt refinery after investing in its rehabilitation, highlighting his consistent advocacy for broader reforms in Nigeria’s oil sector and other areas of the economy.

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Atiku Abubakar, the former vice-president, expressed his belief that the Port Harcourt refinery should have been privatized before undergoing rehabilitation, emphasizing his longstanding support for the privatization of state-owned refineries.

He questioned the current administration’s decision to privatize the Port Harcourt refinery after investing in its rehabilitation, highlighting his consistent advocacy for broader reforms in Nigeria’s oil sector and other areas of the economy.

Atiku urged the NNPC to clarify the benefits of their new privatization approach and emphasized that selling the refinery before rehabilitation could have spared the country from the associated debt burden.

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