It has been reported earlier that the Federal Government had planned to privatize the Ajaokuta Steel Complex to fund the 2018 budget, Click here to read.
However, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo told Governor Bello on Thursday during a closed door meeting in his office at the Presidential Villa, Abuja that such report should be ignored.
The Kogi State Governor told State House correspondents when he came out from the meeting Osinbajo has told him that the Federal Government did not intend to sell the complex.
Bello said, “The Vice President, being the Chairman of the National Economic Council (NEC) we came to make some enquiries from him over the purported sale of Ajaokuta Steel Complex and he has indicated that there is nothing like that.
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“He said there is no plan by the Federal Government to sell Ajeokuta Steel Company. The VP also said Ajeokuta is an asset of the Federal Government and that they are looking into how best to make good use of that particular complex for the benefit of Nigerians at large,”
Meanwhile, the governor said that the coronation of the new Oba of Kabba would be on Saturday, saying, “we came to notify him as a father of the event that is coming up on Saturday and to seek for his blessings.”
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