The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar and some US lobbyists have agreed to the sale of state-owned and controlled oil company.

According to a source close to one of the lobbyists who was actively involved in Mr Abubakar securing a temporary waiver on his visa ban in order to enter the US, a deal has been reached.

The source who did not agree to be named said that the sale of the state-owned oil company was part of the deal that helped Atiku secure the waiver.

“I can tell you that he (Mr Abubakar) and some prominent lobbyists entered into a deal before he came to the United States.

“They have agreed that Nigeria’s state-owned oil company will be sold to a group of people including a Russian consortium which was very influential in bringing him to the US.

Mr Abubakar has repeatedly stated that he will sell the Nigerian National Petroleum Company if elected President in the February 16 election.

He also bragged that he will sell the company to his friends, adding that, he has a right to enrich his friends but not his family.

In a Reuters report, U.S. government officials said Mr Abubakar’s travel ban was waived temporarily by the U.S. State Department after lobbyists mounted a campaign among congressional lawmakers arguing that the administration should not snub the leading challenger to Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in the Feb. 16 election.

One person familiar with the matter, speaking on condition of anonymity to Reuters, said Atiku was allowed to enter because the United States saw little benefit to creating bad blood with the man who might be the next leader of Africa’s most populous nation and the continent’s biggest oil producer.

Lobbyists hired by Atiku said they sought to overcome resistance at the State Department by securing support from members of Congress for the visit, as well as arguing that the top U.S. official for African affairs, Assistant Secretary Tibor Nagy, had an obligation to encourage democracy in the seventh most populous country in the world.

Reuters reported that Atiku’s whirlwind visit to Washington last month was put together with the help of two U.S. lobbying firms.

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