I Will Enrich My Friends If Win In February – Atiku

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has vowed to make his friends rich if elected Nigeria’s leader on February 16, 2019.

Atiku who has always hammered on the fact that he is a champion of the private sector ahead of the election, also pledged to hand over the state run oil company, NNPC, to private investors.

“The long and short is that I am committed to privatizing NNPC (Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation). I said it. I swear. Even if they are going to kill me, I will do it.

“At the end of the day, privatizing NNPC is going to be to our own advantage because you are not going to lose anything”, the successful businessman said.

Atiku also promised to work on the reduction of the size of the federal government.

His words, “As I have said openly, I’ll reduce the size of the federal government completely and make sure that I hand over responsibility to the various components—whether they are states, whether they are regions, whether they are zones, whatever people want to call them, that’s their own business.

“And I am also not going to enrich members of my family, but my friends. Are my friends not entitled to be enriched? As long as there is no element of corruption there. And there was none during our time, when we privatized the banks, when we privatized institutions of the private sector.

“I have not heard anybody coming to say either the president or myself, took money to do that.

“So the intention of deregulating the economy and giving the private sector the responsibility of driving the economy, of course is to bring about prosperity to members of the public.”