There are unconfirmed reports of some of the heavy dealings in Aso Rock that would raise corruption in Nigeria to unprecedented levels. When Obasanjo came to power, he was about to clean up the Oil industry in 2000. It is alleged that several of the Oil companies got together and came up with hundreds of millions of dollars to pay off Mr. President. After which Obasanjo back pedaled on his corruption cleaning exercise. Thus during some of the many trips of Mr. President aboard, several bank accounts were allegedly opened some in the name of Mr. Gbenga at the behest of Mr. President. Thus not all those foreign trips of Mr. President were trips to run away from coup plotting stories, some of them were to make bank deposits. No wonder the Swiss authorities never took Obasanjo seriously when he asked for the Abacha funds to be returned. The official explanation for such trips was to attract foreign investments. A new government would have exposed such dealings thus the need to continue in office including perpetuating the greatest fraud in Nigerian electoral history.

The oil industry is the biggest problem Nigeria has today. One cannot imagine in the new millennium, in the year 2000, Nigeria actually went back to import licensing which is the biggest corruption mechanism that has ever been created in Nigeria. One remembers the time when purchasing an import license for agricultural products from the federal Government enriched so many government officials. Now the amount of brown bag money running behind import license for petroleum products is unbelievable. How can a government say it is liberalizing the economy by privatizing productive companies introduce import licensing at the same time? Thus the Refineries are being destroyed by people who gain from importing petroleum products into Nigeria. Not only that but by continuously tweaking the price of petroleum, Nigerians are guaranteed perpetual inflation. During General Buhari’s leadership, any Oil Company that lifts Crude Oil from Nigeria also refined a percentage to be brought back into Nigeria for local consumption. This guaranteed constant supply of Petrol which the local Oil industry did not like, thus the idea was killed.

During the last four years, Mr. President has ethnically cleaned up the military, thus very few Hausawa officers are left in the Armed forces. If you are not from a certain tribe, you are not promoted and would be dismissed or retired. And if a professional soldier of high esteem like Victor Malu resists giving national secrets away, he was retired and his relative suddenly lost his life as if to punish Malu (Malu’s relative was killed in one of the tribal battles that escalated during Musiliu’s leadership of the Nigeria Police). Obasanjo has been able to slowly remove most northerners in the Armed Forces within the last four years. The second term would involve the removal of all Ibo military officers. Thus all Ibo officers should start applying for jobs in the private industry since it is the Ibo’s turn to be removed from the Army, Navy and Air force. After which the Nigerian Army would be dissolved and Mr. President can then create his own personal army, give them a new uniform (Brownish uniform, no more Green or Camouflage) and Mr. President would declare himself life president.

The argument against such is that Northerners would not allow this to happen; however, the truth is Northerners are silently being kicked out of positions of authority. Northerners are being made very poor (Agriculture has been crippled with fertilizer supply problems). All government contracts are now being executed by a single tribe of non northern origin which means northerners continue to be poor. The few Northerners who could stand against this injustice have no idea what is going on. They are either paid off and thus do not fight for justice or suddenly die in car accidents. Not only that, northern businesses are slowly being destroyed. When people are very poor, they can easily be purchased and controlled. Thus the moronic new northern governors do not know there is a logical conclusion to all what Obasanjo is doing. Similarly, Easterners are losing their lives more openly (which the police blamed on armed robbers).

The tool to destroying industries lies in NEPA. If the price of electricity is raised continuously, it makes no sense to produce goods locally and would be better to import such goods. Take an example of a Shoe factory. Nigeria currently has a good hides and skin industry based in the north, a good rubber industry in the south (all the raw materials for making shoes) and cheap labor. A colleague of mine in Nigeria manufactured shoes of such high quality that they were better than Italian shoes in 1998. What killed his factory were NEPA bills during the Obasanjo Administration. How can a factory pay hundreds of thousands of Naira monthly just for electricity? This led to the closure of the factory. Now my colleague imports other products, and has changed from a manufacturer to a trader. This is the same story every where one looks in Nigeria today. Over one million people have lost their jobs due to Obasanjo’s administration. Another five million people lost the opportunity to have jobs due to the destruction of local industries, Agriculture etc. No industry in Nigeria would survive another four years of Obasanjo.

Mr. President sunk in five hundred million Naira into an agricultural distribution company that was supposed to help farmers and bring down the cost of food items two years ago. The proposal would have helped millions of Nigerians, so what happed to it? The company never saw the light of day. A good example of what is going on is in America; when politicians wish to indirectly stop a bill or program, such politicians use a Filibuster. A filibuster is equivalent to talking an idea to death. Keep throwing it around and behave as if you want it while in the process you kill the idea. Thus the Dredging of the Niger has been stopped or Filibustered, Agriculture is no more (filibustered), manufacturing is being replaced by the trading industry (Import everything including tooth picks), and the Ajaokuta steel plant that was supposed to float Steel products to the world via a dredged River Niger has been filibustered. The history of Nigeria under the Obasanjo regime is a history of filibustering every good idea, while destructive ideas are implemented immediately (such as removal of petroleum subsidy).

Well perhaps after Obasanjo destroys the military and assumes ultimate control what does that hold for Nigeria? Nothing unfortunately. Nigeria is being reduced to nothing only for one man and his friends to rule. Obasanjo’s fear for Coups has guaranteed he was in Nigeria for approximately 50% of the time within the last four years, and within the 50% of that time, lies and false reports were constantly fed to Obasanjo by his security officers and advisers (false reports called the Musiliu Smith reports). Thus between Musiliu Smith reports and traveling, Obasanjo was not really in charge of Nigeria. Thus the question arises, who was really in charge of Nigeria? Perhaps one good thing that would come out of the April 19^th elections is Nigerians will finally realize who really rules Nigeria from behind the Obasanjo Administration. No wonder Mallam Rufai of the BPE has little respect for Nigerians or the National Assembly. I agree with him now, Nigerians are morons if they can watch this happen and do nothing about it.

May 2003