Nasir el-Rufai, former Governor of Kaduna state has said Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president and 2023 PDP presidential candidate deserves credit for spearheading economic reforms during Olusegun Obasanjo administration.
Gatekeepers News reports that El-Rufai made the statement during a condolence visit to family of late Edwin Clark, elder statesman and Niger Delta advocate who died on February 17, 2025.
Atiku who was vice-president during Obasanjo’s tenure was tasked with overseeing the privatisation of national assets, with the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) headed by el-Rufai.
el-Rufai said, “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.”
“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.”
