Privatize Oil and Gas Sector, El-Rufai Tells FG

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has said that the Federal Government should sell everything in the oil and gas sector.

The governor who appeared on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday at the seventh edition of KadInvest, said nothing significant has changed with the commercialisation of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company in July 2022.

He further stated that the NNPC is Nigeria’s biggest problem and should be privatised.

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The Governor pointed out that Nigerian Telecommunications Limited achieved nothing until the private sector came in and revolutionalized the telecoms business.

He said;

“I am giving this example so that when I say government should get out of oil and gas, people should not think it is crazy; it is not. There is no reason why the Nigerian Government should still be in the oil and gas sector. It should just get out, it has failed. By every measure it has failed.

“This year, NNPC has not brought N20,000 to the federation account. We are living on taxes. It is PPTs, royalties, income tax and VAT that is keeping this country going because NNPC claims that subsidy has taken all the oil revenues. I don’t believe it.

“So, the government should sell everything in oil and gas sector…The government should get out of everything that is left of electricity, leave it to the private sector, create the environment, the money will come. We did it in the telecoms sector.

“Nothing has changed, it’s just a change in name with limited at the end.

“Nothing has changed, they are still taking our money, declaring profit that we don’t see the dividends.”