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Former Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has acknowledged former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s key role in driving economic reforms during President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration.

Atiku served as vice president from 1999 to 2007 and was responsible for overseeing the privatization of national assets. The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), which El-Rufai led at the time, operated under his supervision.

During a condolence visit to the family of Edwin Clark, the late elder statesman and Niger Delta advocate who passed away on February 17, El-Rufai stated that Atiku deserves recognition for his contributions to economic policymaking under Obasanjo.Nobody gives Alhaji Atiku Abubakar the credit for economic policy making under the Obasanjo administration. Many of the things we did, we did under his leadership,” El-Rufai said. “Maybe because we don’t write about it, and people don’t read history, we tend to forget. We only remember negative things. Maybe it’s part of human nature.”

El-Rufai’s comments come despite his past criticism of Atiku. In 2016, he accused the former vice president of spreading falsehoods and suggested that Atiku was haunted by “demons of corruption.”



https://dailypost.ng/2025/02/22/el-rufai-acknowledges-atikus-role-in-obasanjo-economic-reforms/