Atiku overlooked for his role in economic reforms under Obasanjo – El-Rufai

Abdullateef Fowewe

Former Kaduna Governor, Nasir El-Rufai has stated that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar deserves some flowers for leading economic reforms during President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration.

El-Rufai claimed that humans only remember the negative things that their fellows have done forgetting the good ones.

The former Governor said this during a condolence visit to the family of Edwin Clark, an elder statesman and Niger Delta advocate who died on February 17.

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.”

Abubakar was vice-president in the Obasanjo government from 1999 to 2007.