The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has plans to embark on partial privatisation of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
The former vice-president also plans to sell all four national refineries, and cut corporate income tax to be the lowest in Africa,
According to the Atiku Abubakar policy document seen by TheCable, the 71-year-old plans to create three million jobs per year.
The policy document was put together with a major delivery timeline from 2019 to 2025.
Other items on Atiku’s plan include building 5,000 kilometres of roads and 5,000 kilometres of modern railway.
The plan is built on four cardinal points: jobs, infrastructure, poverty eradication, and human capital development.
The Atiku policy document also seeks to “improve spending efficiency of the federal government and drastically reduce the share of recurrent revenue in the budget from 70% to 35% by 2025”.
According to the document, Atiku also seeks to implement the petroleum industry bill, ensure Nigeria refines over one million barrels of oil per day, and generate 20,000 megawatts of power by 2025.
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