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*THE UNFORGIVABLE SINS OF BUHARI*
Ali Abubakar Sadiq
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*The country, and in fact the whole world was stunned, when just a few hours before the polling booths are opened for the 2019 Nigeria Presidential elections, the electoral umpire INEC, shifted the election by a week. Hardly an event in Nigeria’s political landscape for the past two decades had been thus disappointing. The question on everyone’s lips is why? INEC’s excuse on logistics, though plausible is far from convincing.*
*Whatever may be the actual reasons, one cannot fail to see the unseen hands of the forces of darkness in Nigeria and the axis of evil outside the country that are united and hell-bent in seeing Buhari not returned for a second term. Elitist ideology once declared “If you want to predict the future…create one” that is why in 2007 a leading American diplomat declared that Nigeria is on a collision course with destruction come 2015, the fateful year of presidential elections. If it wasn’t for God’s intervention, and the remarkable selflessness of President Jonathan, the country would have been doomed. Nigeria was earmarked alongside other nations after the Arab spring to be destroyed in 2015 and you can agree with me that all the factors leading to civil war were in place during the early months of 2015.*

*Oil is the world’s biggest and most pervasive business, the greatest of the great industries that arose in the last decades of the nineteenth century with the first oil drill in Pennsylvania, USA around the 1860’s. Since then, the politics of oil intertwined with waging wars, had caused 40 million deaths in World War I alone and 80 Million more in the Second World War beside the 28 million deaths from war-related diseases and famine. Oil had become the curse and at the same time the blessings of modern age. Foreign policy, war and technological developments are all hinged on oil.*

*The United States, European Union and China are the largest consumers of oil today and between them gulped almost half of the total oil produced in the world (47%). As history of the oil scramble showed since mid-19th Century, there is no country that can discover oil, extract it, refine and sell to the world without the involvement and permission of United States and some European member nations. The 10 leading oil producers in the world currently are United States (13 million barrels p/d), Saudi Arabia (12 million barrels p/d), Russia (11 million barrels p/d), Iran (5 million barrels p/d), Canada (4.8 million barrels p/d), Iraq (4.5 million barrels p/d), UAE (3.9 million barrels p/d), China (3.8 million barrels p/d), Kuwait (3 million barrels p/d) and Brazil (2.7 million barrels p/d). Our country missed the list by whiskers as the 11th largest producer in the world with 2.2 million barrels p/d. As for the 10 largest proven oil reserves, Nigeria didn’t missed out but complete the list as the tenth.*

*Oil reserves are under 3 categories, The Proven Reserves, Probable Reserves and Possible Reserves. The categorization I think was used by Oil superpowers to determine where and when to extract more oil from the ground considering both the probable and proven reserves usually end up in the proven reserves. We can easily grasp this taking into consideration that United States, who follows Nigeria as the 11th largest proven reserve, had a reserve of 20.68 Billion in 2013 before some of its probable reserves were turned into proven reserves to become 36.5 billion in 2017. That is to say the USA had, in just a space of just 4 years, added 16 billion (about 70%) to its proven reserves.*

*The proven oil reserves in Nigeria that stood at 37.1 Billion are in the region of the Niger Delta alone. Buhari as someone conversant with oil industry, having been a minister of petroleum in the 70s that built our refineries in Warri, Port Harcourt and Kaduna is also aware of the international politics of oil. This brings us to the unforgiveable offense Buhari had made.*

Knowing that the Gongola Basin, Chad Basin, Benue Trough and Sokoto Basin were all under the probable reserves, Buhari decided to give NNPC the go ahead and start exploration for oil in all of them. If we may go back into recent history, oil prospecting in the Gongola Basin began during Obasanjo’s first tenure (1999-2003) at the instigation of some northern senators, especially the Senate committee Chairman on Transport Salisu Matori representing Bauchi South. Unwillingly the Obasanjo government allowed it for a while before the company undertaking the project, despite oil discovery, lamented it wasn’t in commercial quantity which forced it to close operation. Senator Matori, under a conspiracy by the ruling PDP was prevented from returning to the senate due to his passionate commitment to exploring oil in the north.

*Almost two decade later, with the current government of Buhari giving the go ahead to NNPC under Maikanti Baru to continue exploration in all areas of the north from the Chad Basin down to Benue Trough and up to Sokoto Basin, the first oil well in Alkaleri, an area that was earlier declared as not of commercial value, had come back to life. In his words Buhari said “Exploration in our frontier basins is a national imperative and a core policy thrust that must be sustained”. That was a bombshell to the international superpowers on oil and the unforgivable mistake as far as they are concerned.* *Though the country is in desperate for more oil to accelerate development, cut on debt and create more jobs, the oil superpowers are not ready for tapping oil reserves in the north thus they will leave no stone unturned in colluding with the opposition to see Buhari did not get the mandate in the next four years to realize the dream of such a core policy of his administration.*

*The first salvo came when the chief Justice of Nigeria was summarily suspended by the President at the instance of the CCT. In unison, US, UK and European Union went short of condemning Buhari for it. Earlier on, the PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar who haven’t set his foot in America for over a decade for fear of being arrested on corruption charges that sent his partner in crime who happens to be a senator to prison, was in a fishy move smuggled into America for a few hours during the shutdown just to enable him score a cheap political point in his campaign. A few hours to Election Day INEC was left with no choice but to postpone the election due to several problems discovered at the nick of time, including a purported plan to doctor the collated result that could give Atiku victory. What could anyone imagine if Atiku was declared a winner through rigging? Nigeria could explode but that is no problem to the western powers as killing of innocent lives and destabilizing nations in their quest for oil is part of their foreign policies. We have seen the lies of WMD poised on Saddam Hussein through which Iraq was destroyed as the Americans continue to take their oil. We have also seen how one of the most prosperous country, not only in the Africa but the world, as Libya was laid to waste and its leader killed while Britain continue to take its oil. Syria’s 7-year long war had devastated the country killing millions. They have similar plans for Nigeria because the probable reserves in Northern Nigerian could double what we have at the moment and tapping it would certainly take Nigeria on the path of development under the leadership of Buhari. We have seen how two years of rice production have impoverished foreign companies that import 5 million dollars’ worth of rice daily to our nation. The western world despite its hypocritical stance on corruption, are the same people that are trying to help one of the most corrupt people in the continent, that have an outstanding case with them, to clinch power so that he will fulfill the promise of selling NNPC, which under this administration is promoting the policy of exploration in the north. Selling the NNPC is the surest way of arresting oil exploration in the North. The oil reserves in the north are staggering and could change the whole equation of the world oil policy. NNPC, under Buhari is increasingly becoming a thorn in the flesh therefore the western powers are pushing for a candidate that will unbundle it “even at the cost of my life” as Atiku boldly and unashamedly declared.*

*Since the mid-19th century, seven companies known as the seven sisters, controls 85% of world oil production and reserves. They are British Petroleum BP, Chevron, Shell, Gulf Oil, Exxon, Mobil and Texaco.* *Fortunately for the world, rising nationalism in oil producing countries after the second world war and the cries of national sovereignty over natural resources, led to the creation of some national companies in Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. Those are the five members that created OPEC in 1960. Creation of OPEC was an act I attributed to providence because at the beginning, the seven sisters, according to Howard Page of Standard oil “We attached little importance to it because we believe it would not work”. In a CIA report on middle east oil just two months after the creation of OPEC, only a mere four lines was devoted to OPEC in a forty three page document. The thinking in the west is the oil reserves in the ground actually belonged by contract to the concessionaires (Foreign governments) the companies (the seven sisters), thus limiting the countries' control over their own oil. As time goes on, OPEC proved to be more than what anyone could have expected as it rises to play a prominent role in the global oil market and international relations. That notwithstanding, the tendency of oil resources to attract war merchants, had been able in the recent past to create the protracted war between Iran and Iraq, the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq and the subsequent gulf war. We have seen the orchestrated 9/11 attacks that paved way for war on two fronts, Afghanistan and Iraq. And most recently we have seen the collapse of Gadhafi and the civil war in once peaceful Libya, destruction of Syria and Yemen, all in the name of Almighty Oil.*
*Presidential elections next week is more crucial than the one in 2015 because this time around, the war merchants had in contest Buhari, who they believed is detrimental to their oil plans in Nigeria that could possibly upset global oil plans if he is re-elected. The issue is no longer about Atiku or PDP but about oil.*
*Back in the land, local oil interest is also playing out as Buhari had indicated not to renew oil well license to individuals. This is the reason why the elites united against him.* *Prominent among them are Babangida, Obasanjo and Danjuma. They are all former Generals and stupendously rich and what they amassed could have never been possible if they lived for a thousand years except for the fact that they took our oil with impunity.* *Babangida according to Investing.com was listed as the richest former ruler with a staggering $50 billion ahead of Saudi Ruler and Michael Bloomberg, who happens to be the 8th richest person in America. It also means he is twice richer than the richest black entrepreneur in the world Aliko Dangote. Obasanjo was listed by the same magazine as worth a staggering $32 billion dollars’ worth. This is the man that declared he only got 20,000 Naira (a little over minimum wage) in his account in 1998 when he got out of prison. Danjuma was, according to Forbes worth $5.8 billion and as the 3rd richest person in Africa. Tell me, how could this people ever amass such wealth? It is quite obvious that they got their money by tapping our oil resources directly and making millions of dollars daily. For Obasanjo that had 20,000 thousand in 1998, to amass $32 billion dollars in 20 years could roughly means he generates at least $13 million dollars monthly (that is 4.6 billion Naira) from his biggest business, the Ota farms.*

*Nigerians beware, as one oil tycoon phrased it “Oil is almost like money”, and the forces of darkness and the axis of evil knows it better than either you or me could ever imagined and they are ready to kill, en masse, to protect the flow. We have seen how Libya, as one of the most prosperous nations on earth was reduced to ruins. Buhari is our Gadhafi, protecting him by voting him back to power is protecting ourselves and at the same time safeguarding the future of our children. The dice is cast; we either chose prosperity or destruction.*