Buhari govt revoked my INTELS contracts, shared to cronies – Atiku

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused the administration of the immediate-past President
Muhammadu Buhari of revoking his business interests over political differences.

A logistics firm, INTELS Nigeria Ltd, owned by Atiku, was handling pilotage contracts for oil companies at the Nigerian seaports for years before the advent of Buhari administration in 2015.

Atiku, who’s the presidential candidate of the PDP in the 2023 general election, disclosed this at a world press conference on his discovery of the academic records of President Bola Tinubu at the Chicago State University (CSU), in Abuja on Thursday.

The businessman cum politician, who was responding to a question on a possible backlash of his latest political advocacy on his business interests, said: “I was the founder of one of the biggest logistics companies since the military era, and as soon as Buhari came, even though we had licences and we had nothing to do with government. We are just contractors to the oil companies.

“As soon as Buhari came, all
those contracts were revoked and
taken away from us till today. So,
I am not doing any government
business.

“So, I am not scared of any
business being taken away from
me, it has already been taken
away from me since the Buhari
administration. They took it and distributed out among themselves,” Atiku stated.

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Meanwhile, Atiku Abubakar says he will only withdraw his case against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s academic records after the Supreme Court’s judgement.

Abubakar who spoke on Thursday at a press conference in Abuja had asked Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), to join him in the fight to establish the authenticity of Tinubu’s certificates.

“If the court rules that I am right, fine. If the court rules that he (Tinubu) is right — so that’s the end of the fight because at the moment we are at the supreme court and there is no any other court (higher) than the supreme court,” the former vice-president said.