Atiku Has No Idea Of What Privatization Is All About By Claiming He Brought GSM To Nigeria – Fashola

Babatunde Raji Fashola, a former governor of Lagos State and Nigeria’s minister of works and housing, has accused Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of spreading untrue information regarding his privatization scheme while serving as vice president under General Olusegun Obasanjo.

According to Fashola, Atiku did not use privatization to introduce phone networking or phone usage to Nigeria. General Ibrahim Babangida, not Atiku Abubakar, is the one responsible for the privatization of Nigeria, according to Fashola.

We question all of the presidential contenders what actions they have taken that have had national appeal, acceptance, and sustainability,” he stated. Atiku Abubakar, one of the contenders, declared he would privatize like he had in the past. And we questioned him, “What is privatization?” In 1986, under General Ibrahim Babangida, the law was ratified, and the privatization process got under way.

By asserting that he introduced GSM to Nigeria, Atiku demonstrates his ignorance of what privatization entails. That is not accurate at all. Nitel was privatized; how many Nigerians still have a Nitel line, though? There is a very fine line between privatizing an asset and selling a license, and the lines we use today are licenses that were sold.