Nationalize MTN now, APC Tasks Federal Government.
By Lazarus Zakaa, Abuja.
The ruling All Progressives Congress Party, APC has condemned the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa, task President Muhammadu Buhari administration to take steps to immediately nationalize telecommunications giant, MTN.
The party also advocated stringent measures against Multichoice (DSTV), Standard Chartered Bank and Stanbic Bank as well as other South African business interests in Nigeria, declared that Africa can no longer be the centrepiece of Nigeria’s foreign policy.
Addressing a news conference in Abuja, National Chairman of APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole said, the party has now given the needed support base for President Buhari to go on the offensive in order to sound a note of warning to other African countries who may want to copy the antics of the South Africans.
The APC also want Nigerians to boycott all South African goods and businesses, as well accused the African National Congress ANC administration in South Africa of backing the killings of Nigerians, querying why it has been so difficult to arrest and sentence perpetrators of xenophobic attacks in the country.
Comrade Oshiomhole however called for invoking business sanctions on South African business in Nigeria, as according to him, Nigerians want a fame action, as South Africans are making billions of profits in Nigeria.
