Atiku’s Gotel Communications sacks 51 staff

Gotel Communications is one of the investments of Mr Abubakar.

Mr Abubakar was the presidential candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last general elections.

Gotel Communications had in 2016 carried out a mass retrenchment after which it placed others on renewable contracts.

This week, Gotel Communications axed more staff.

The sacked workers, who are mostly contract staffers of the local TV and radio stations, said “no reason was given for their sack”.

One of the sacked workers confirmed to Premium Times on the phone that he was among those sacked.

He said “no clear reason was given by the management for their sack”.

He, however, said the action was linked to the recent merging of all the businesses of the opposition politician.

Mr Abubakar had last year merged all his businesses into a single group known as Priam Group.