Former Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole Speaks on Saraki's Call for Sale of Nigeria's Assets

Edo state former governor, Adams Aliu Oshiomhole, has lend his voice to the ongoing controversy on whether the Buhari government should sell some of the nation's assets in a bid to overcome the country's overwhelming economic hardship.

Business mogul, Aliko Dangote, Senate President Bukola Saraki and other top Nigerians of prominence had advocated for the
sale of the assets. Lending his voice to the issue.
According to him; “The word itself, selling assets is offensive. But I don’t know the difference between the so called asset selling and privatisation of state’s assets or privatisation of certain sectors where government is clearly inefficient and where it is believed that private sector’s involvement will be more efficient.

“But to talk of auctioning national assets, I don’t have all the details. I am not able to readily understand that but my own position is that we must not panic as a nation and resort to quick fix which over time we might regret.
“As you can see now, we wanted privatisation of power and the government went ahead to privatise the power in a hurried manner and end up transferring the DISCOS to incompetent hands and Nigeria is worse off today in terms of power stability relative to what it was when it was under the government’s control,” the Governor said.

“My conclusion as a pragmatic is; don’t hurry, don’t rush into anything take your time to do your calculations and use words that are not offensive, improve on your communication and
remove the discuss from jargon to ordinary language so that every Nigeria’s tax-payer, who is a stakeholder and shareholder of Nigeria incorporated, can understand what the issues are,” he said.