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The cabals have been exploiting the ignorance of most Nigerians and its time Nigerians are put in the know about the whole subsidy issue

OIL DEREGULATION: A CASE OF EXPLOITATIVE IGNORANCE
By: John Okafor C
Majority of Nigerian problems have all been talked about but not thought about in manner they deserve. Nigeria has been talking of economic injustice, social injustice, judicial injustice, but there is such a thing as intellectual injustice. Our national problems should be tackled with intellectual justice, not with exploitative ignorance.
There is nothing more important in Nigeria today than that 170 million Nigerians should be informed on the basic facts in this whole oil deregulation issue.
Ex-President Jonathan’s earlier attempt to remove fuel subsidy on January 1, 2012 led to widespread protests in the country, many Nigerians ignorant of the benefits and advantages of subsidy removal and following the malicious misinformation by some cabals took to the streets forcing the government to partially reverse itself. That’s “exploitative Ignorance”
Therefore, while we attack the physical evils of oil regulation, we must battle the ignorance which permits them. And I mean not only ignorance in the individual Nigerians, but those attitudes, policies, and prejudices which balk the free exchange of information and knowledge amongst Nigerians on the whole issue of the subsidy removal.
The malignant germs of misunderstanding and misinformation are at work in the minds of Nigerians 24 hours of every day. To combat them challenges the sturdy and the effort of every individual who occupies any position of influence on public opinion
The problems with the Nigerian oil sector are not inherently insoluble. Of course they are difficult; but their solutions are not beyond the wisdom of Nigerians. They seem insoluble under conditions of fear, distrust, and even hostility, where every move is weighed in terms of whether it will help or weaken a potential enemy, If these conditions can be changed then much can be done.
So many prominent Nigerians in a bid to offer solutions have voiced their opinion on the truth about oil deregulation and the need for the government to enforce it.
The Executive Secretary of MOMAN, Mr Obafemi Olawore, said that deregulation would bring in investments into the sector, adding that only deregulation would encourage the establishment of private refineries in the country. According to him, the Federal Government should summon the courage to fully deregulate and remove subsidy or embark on continuous subsidy regime payment as at when due, they must talk to the people and let them understand the advantages.
The immediate past President of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), Mr. Babatunde Ogun also called on the federal government to deregulate the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry, saying the call became expedient in view of the continued fall in global price of oil. He also argued that deregulation will revamp the ailing downstream sector, which is almost at the verge of collapsing.
The MD/CEO of Capital Oil and Gas Ltd, Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah, a heavyweight and a stakeholder in the Oil and Gas sector with firm background and deep-seated familiarity in the modus operandi of the industry has also called on the government to establish a full deregulation in the Oil sector to save Nigerians from the hands of few cabals who are holding the country hostage due to their greed and selfish interests taking the recent fuel strike as a paradigm. Speaking on the Channels TV, Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah said “I have been of the view that we should deregulate so that we can cut out corruption but unfortunately Nigerians didn’t take it from Jonathan” he further stated that “if we deregulate, we can comfortably sell at 90 or 85 naira per litre.
It is not always necessary that people should think alike and believe alike before they can work together. These are opinions of different Nigerians on the oil deregulation. Although their ideologies may differ but I believe that their commitment to Nigerian project is equally matched.
Therefore, that the future may not be a repetition of the past, the new government, the Buhari administration should deregulate the oil sector now. The government should not allow herself and few cabals to further exploit the ignorance of most Nigerians.
Without deregulation, we cannot win. With deregulation we cannot fail. Nigeria must not fail.

GMB is so gullible. How can he say he is concerned for the millions of the unemployed youths? Unless you are telling us that as a certificatless president, no youth will be required to present certificate before he/she gets job.

farobat:
Show us the certificate

The chances of getting what we want increases as we become clearer about what we want. Do we really need APC change or GEJ transformation?

To get the records straight, Change only changes the past and transformation creates the future.
Based on this analogy, one would wonder what past APC want to fix. The past that likes of GMB and his ilk created? Good, let’s assume that APC wants to fix this past, what are their strategies?

I hold opinion of people based on their actions and utterances. APC for the most part has claimed that GEJ and PDP has created a mess and they want to fix it (change), one would imagine who are these people called APC, who are these people clamouring for change and who are these people that will fix this mess.

70% of the chief proponents and echelons of APC are former PDP members. These people didn’t join APC due to their ideology because they have none, but out of aggression and greedy, some of them join the party and get election ticket in less than 9 hours.
It would therefore be safer to say that APC is not a party but an Anti-Jonathan and Anti-PDP organization poised to wrestle power from PDP back to the north and some believe it’s a Tinubu agenda to rent GMB to ride on the sentiments of the poor masses in the north and get them to the presidency to loot our national treasury.

It would be hard to dispute the above arguments judging from the body language of APC and their stalwarts.
Furthermore, when APC talks of change, one would see it as a mere ranting or backings of a toothless bulldog because they seem to confuse inconsistency with change. They seem to believe that changing from one party to another or from one nomenclature to another is the change Nigerians crave for? When they said they want change, it also means that they just want a change of the ruling party same way they change from one party to another. That’s not really the change Nigerians want.

Change can change back; they can change from APC back to GMB dictatorship. Transformation is completely different, though sometimes it’s called change. Transformation never makes same mistake. Transformation has the ultimate power of change. What the world is crying for now is transformation, not necessarily change, we are not different, Nigerians also crave for transformation not unnecessary change. Change is reversible but transformation is forward-looking. We can’t go back,

President Jonathan is transforming Nigeria and we will allow him to Finish. I will allow him, what about you?

GMB simply lacks wisdom. You cant give what you dont have.

OgologoDimkpa:
Intelligence kor?.
A stack illiterate talking about intelligence

The Op is so gullible to post a trash like this! Well am not surprise cos looking at the comment i can understand your kind of readership. imagine lifting a trash like this "If we get the opportunity, we will make the military capable again ... That is what we would do differently, to make Nigerian military capable again." and u found it worthy to post it here. I have always said that the danger to Nigeria is not GMB after all he is a semi-illiterate, the danger is a citizenry willing to vote such a man for president. sentiments apart, how can a man with an idea as gullible as the one you posted here tend to solve the problem of insecurity. it takes a smart and wise president to do it and you will agree with me that GMB is neither smart nor wise. im not surprised he allowed himself to be rented by Tinubu and his ilk to get them to the presidency to llot our national treasury

We have to know the kind of people we listen to. some people claim to be stakeholders in this country and they have questionable characters. how can someone like Timipre Sylva who was a PDP governor for four years and was kicked out of seat and in annoyance joined APC and claims to be a change agent. why are we deceiving ourselves. we claim that PDP has poilt this country and yet the people clamouring for change are part of the PDP. APC seems to confuse inconsistency with change. that you change from one party to another doesnt signify change. i wish to state that Timipre Sylva is not worthy to be a nigerian stakeholder and as such shouldnt have an opinion when integrity is called for

Peering into the past is more comfortable than speculating on things to come. Expectations about the year 2015 grow more with every rip of the calendar; February 2015 bears the cumulative emotional weight of thousands of different hopes and unfulfilled predictions
Regardless of whether or not the coming presidential election is a referendum or choice, President Jonathan deserves to be re-elected on both counts. On the economy and foreign affairs, the PDP stalwart has shown himself to be a better candidate than any of Buhari, Atiku’s public personas
A lot of people, including myself, are writing about why Buhari are not fit to be president but it struck me that very few people are actually writing about why GEJ deserves a second term. Is it because the Jonathan administration’s track record is so poor that it is hard to defend? Hardly. On the contrary, I think it is just easier to criticise than to defend, and easier to sit on the side-lines than to fight back against misinformation
But time is running out, so let us set the records straight
Despite the united front oppositions made to unbalance GEJ presidential power; the almagated pre-killing of his national dialogue, the unified over-utilization of filibustering, the dedicated aggregate to prevent a second term, the cohesive voting against any Jonathan-backed advancement, Jonathan nonetheless achieved phenomenal strides
Let’s start with the fact that Jonathan has presided over one of the toughest periods in Nigerian history and inherited a security and financial crisis that was of catastrophic proportions. To make things even more difficult, today’s landscape of instant communications and mass media escalates every problem to crisis proportions within hours, a timeframe that is too short for any adequate response, even from the presidency
President Jonathan, like many recent presidents, has been a polarizing figure. Some people like him, while others want to see him leave office soon. Even his harshest critics will concede that he certainly came into office at a bad time. Some of his supporters are disappointed he has not done more. Some pf his harshest critics think that he has not done one right thing. In reality, he has guided Nigeria through a tough time and deserves a second term
It is to get caught up in the hope that a new president will bring with them magical solutions to all our problems, but that is a fantasy. No president, PDP or APC can give us utopia. History will judge President Jonathan on the effectiveness of his policies, but if you examine his track record objectively, it is clear that he has been a dynamic, committed and effective leader during a time of extreme challenge. Contrary to APC propaganda, Jonathan is a strong president who has done a good job for us and we should not hesitate to acknowledge that. He may not be entirely the president the country wants, but he is the president the country so sorely needs

I articulate a strong desire for APC to stop preventing President Jonathan from doing his job. I am are expressing our annoyance with their refusal to accept the PDP man doing something good for the country
You have really got to feel bad for President Jonathan, after all. Nigeria faces so many problems today, and none of them are his fault. If he could fix these problems, he would. But NO president in his situation could
Just look at the economic and security crisis alone, which GEJ inherited from the past administrations. They screwed up things so badly that NO president could have possibly been expected to fix the mess overnight. And by overnight, we are of course talking about Jonathan’s first term in office
If only Jonathan was given a chance to save the country, he had been able to show us the successes he is really capable of. Instead, he is been subjected to nothing but binding obstructionism. And if you are even thinking about pointing out that Jonathan’s party held majorities in both branches of the National Assembly during his first three years in office, which should have allowed the president to do anything he wanted, have you already forgotten how busy he was dealing with Boko Haram crisis he inherited? Not to mention that Jonathan was preoccupied with numerous painstaking challenges that most administrations are thankfully spared from: mediating sensitive ethnic conflicts, and dealing with insecurity and corruption… just to name a few

All we are asking from Jonathan’s critics is to give the man a chance to succeed. It’s unreasonable to expect a president to inherit a poor economy and turn it in the right direction by the end of his first term. It’s unreasonable to expect a president to deal effectively with foreign policy challenges that existed before he took office. It’s unreasonable to expect a president to achieve success with divided government. If we just give president Jonathan a chance (aka, re-elect), we have no doubt that he can rise from the depths of being only the forth greatest president of all time to his rightful place as the greatest president there will ever be
He just needs the opportunity. Is that so much to ask?

Even if the match is equal, Jonathan is preferable because he not only represent the face of hope and change, he represents a generational shift. Buhari is just too old to contribute

The Nigeria people, in its enduring & questionable wisdom, a few years ago (1960-2010), gave their car to drunk drivers, who totalled it.

Then they found this new mechanic (GEJ) in 2011 who made promises about being able to fix the damage.

Now it seems that it's taking longer than expected to fix everything, the Nigerian people are frustrated and anxious to get back on the road

And they have to choose: do they give the mechanic a little more time? (2015-2019) Or do they give the keys to the certificate-less drunk driver’s cousin (GMB),

Who they just saw at the local military bar, drunk and passed out on the floor?