Presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress Party (NDCP), Dr. Johnson Edosomwan has condemned plans by the PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar to sell off the nation’s refineries through privatisation if elected President, saying it was the wrong approach to reviving the nation’s ailing economy.
Edosomwan who spoke while presenting his Vice Presidential candidate to the public in Abuja said the best thing to do is to first do a comprehensive restructuring of the nation’s assets before deciding on what to do with them.
He said it was too premature to say what asset will be sold and which one will not be sold, assuring however that he will create a competitive environment for all businesses in the country.
He said saying categorically that he will sell off the assets was wrong as you cannot make a categorical statement not infrastructure you do not have enough information about, adding that as President, he will subject the entire Nigerian Nation to what he described as a comprehensive review in other to make it work again.
He said if elected President, he will focus on creating a work environment for the country and subject the Constitution to a review within 90 days and make sure that every Nigeria will be under the law with nobody anove the law.
He said the problem with infrastructural development in the country has nothing to do with lack of resources, stressing that the nation was going through infrastructural decay because all monies budgeted for such development always find their way into private hands.
Edosomwan who was also endorsed at the occasion for the Presidential seat by members of the northern chapter of the National Commercial Tricycle and Motorcycle Owners and Riders Association of Nigeria assured that his government will do everything possible to bring to Nigeria the technology for manufacturing tricycles and ensure that vehicles currently being imported are manufactured locally.
