Now this is not an article, this is just me trying to gist with too many people scattered in too many places. So, I will write this like I am talking to people informally not as an effort to impress the reader but an attempt at making Nigerians see a few things in the right perspective.

The Nigerian government never intended to punish the fuel subsidy cabal. A serving Senator had gone to the President in August 2011 to report the corruption in the subsidy process and the president had called his bluff. The Senator then went ahead to do the right thing. Days on, the president and his crew decided to withdraw subsidy, not because they wanted to punish the thieving cabal but because they wanted to ensure the people of Nigeria and not the government bear the brunt of the inefficiencies and corruption of the subsidy system. Today, we all know how that panned out. Nigerians refused and in the end we know it was not about Nigerians using too much petrol but about government intentionally allowing a few people to loot our common wealth.

Now, there is a report of that scam totaling about N3 trillion as at the latest count – including arrears paid this year – yet the government has been stalling on the House of Representatives’ probe report. Games and gimmicks on, time passed and now the government realised something had to be done about the report. In a sane society, “something” here would mean the prosecution of the indicted individuals and companies, in a mad and corrupt system as ours, something here means to throw a cog in the wheel of the justice process. Distract Nigerians, set the members of the committee up as corrupt and get them in a brawl of arguments that’d at least create doubts in the minds of the people. All they need was that doubt. Now they have more from the same Nigerians who were crying to see justice done to the subsidy probe report.

Trust me, they (the cabal) don’t care if Farouk Lawan is guilty, they just want us in doubt as to the veracity of the probe panel’s report. These men and women of perverse ways and corrupt means know that Nigerians run at every straw and dance to every beat of distraction. At this point, we must begin to ask the right questions. Farouk Lawan is only one of the committee members. Did the said money influence the content of the report? Is Farouk Lawan the report? Why is this happening now? Is this in the best interest of Nigerians who want to know what happened to over N2 trillion (given that even the remaining N1 trillion or so is even above the previous yearly subsidy budget averages)

First Obasanjo, Now Jonathan. Otedola knows who to ball with

They know we are obsessed with news portraying any politician as corrupt and they know we convict people long before they are convicted. They know our general makeup and they have simply thrown this bait of distraction to keep us dancing our way to 2015 while the rest loot and those in office do absolutely nothing. Mr. Otedola is currently with President Jonathan as I type this. The same Otedola in the eye of this storm. The same Otedola that has been seen carrying the bag of the legendary Patience Jonathan. If Nigerians don’t know what this is all about, then we deserve the evil we get from these lot. This is not about Farouk Lawan, this is about us.

Farouk Lawan is not a saint. I am not either. You have to know how to play the PDP game to remain influential in Nigeria’s politics since 1999 but as far as this fuel subsidy probe goes, himself and his committee members have done their job. Those who said the report exonerated some people are not saying the right thing. No report can achieve all its aims, that is why there are government institutions to follow up on such reports. Of course, the SSS has been busy trying to catch Farouk Lawan while Boko Haram has been busy killing Nigerians in droves. State devices are set against innocent Nigerians while evil people are called to the negotiation table when they successfully kill enough Nigerians. That’s why there is a phrase called “the Nigerian paradox.”

That we have charlatans in government is a known reality,that they know the mindset of Nigerians and their gullibility is another known reality. What is not known is whether Nigerians will get carried away by this Otedola distraction or instead focus on the N3 trillion loot.

Farouk dared the Cabal, the Cabal has N3 trillion and presidential powers to fight back

If Farouk Lawan is guilty, let him face the law but the State cannot prioritize his case above the fuel subsidy scam like it is already doing. To do so is to prove beyond all doubt that indeed the subsidy cabal has a head that cannot be differentiated from the head of Nigeria. That is not to say that has not been proven beyond all doubt though.

So, those who are interested can focus on the Otedola bait, while those who know the game well enough can focus on the real thing. N3 trillion or so has been stolen from Nigeria and as we speak, the government keeps throwing all sorts of distractions on the path of justice. The distraction started with the twin Abuja-Kaduna blast. We just pray the next distractions don’t include more bombs.

In conclusion: Yes, Nigerian politicians are guilty until proven innocent. The subsidy cabal has at least N2 trillion to work with and nail Farouk Lawan. This is the biggest scam in our history and Farouk Lawan, Bukola Saraki and the likes must be ready to suffer the consequence of standing in this case on the side of truth. There will be more consequences but it’d help to see Nigerians focus on the most important things. Has subsidy money be stolen? Yes. Let’s go after the culprits. At least that hit the#NationalDistractionAlbum charts before this latest distraction.

Videos can be doctored, but that over N2 trillion has been stolen from Nigerian’s federation account cannot be doctored. A cabal member bought a Polo Club in America last April. The government is broke. Yes, we cannot doctor our poverty, a poverty caused by wanton public stealing. Don’t be fooled, don’t be distracted, this is an act of deception from the same evil studio that produced the many fake videos we have been privy to watch since the days of Sani Abacha.

Whatever happened (or did not happen) between Otedola and Lawan cannot change reality. The reality that Otedola is the central striker in this game of grand deception. No one expects the president to do this himself. And yes, until he is proven guilty beyond every doubt, that he favoured Otedola in the report, Farouk Lawan remains innocent in the eye of this writer. The other culprits have been proven guilty so it is fair that justice takes its course. A man who ought to be in jail should not be available to set other people up. I should say more but it is time to allow others talk.

Source: omojuwa.com

God bless this writer!

Poor Omojuwa and El-Rufai! They are feeling a personal loss!
Times are hard for the "North for 2015" "born to rule brigade."

Eyes are red in the "owners of Nigeria" corner.

Come 2016 - 2018, the oil blocks whose expiring licenses are causing this high drama's will be "renewed" in the interest of the people.