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Obasanjo never hid his disgust for General
Sani Abacha who had jailed him for a
“phantom coup”. Released from jail and
still wallowing in a fit of new found
spirituality, he wrote a book and called it
“The Animal Called Man”. And he elected
to wage a battle on this “Animal Called
Man”.
While taking his oath of office at the Eagle
Square on 27th May, 1999, he had pledged
to wrestle corruption out of our national
psyche. In a fit of mediaeval triumphalism,
he chanted: “there will be no sacred cows!”
But his first attack was a disaster. No
sooner had he made that declaration than
he dispatched Mallam Haroun Adamu to
the headquarters of the Petroleum Trust
Fund (PTF), an intervention agency run by
General Muhammadu Buhari, to start the
war on corruption. Haroun Adamu’s public
brief was to wind down PTF but the hidden
one was to disgrace General Buhari by
exposing the “shady deals” in PTF.
Contractors working for PTF were used to
picking their cheques across the counter
without much ado. Under the new
inquisitor, contractors discovered they now
had to oil their cheques out, something
alien to the PTF they knew. They cried
foul. And there were several other fouls
after the first foul. To say that Obasanjo
was thoroughly embarrassed by his
minions would be an understatement, so
much so that till date he does not discuss
PTF in public.
As a General, it would appear that
Obasanjo read Sun Tzu’ s “The Art of War”
upside down. Sun Tzu had counselled:
“Know thyself; know thy enemy. You will
fight a thousand battles without defeat.”
The blitzkrieg he deployed only showed he
did not know PTF. He might not have
needed to fire a shot to win or wean PTF.
To date, most Nigerians knew how PTF
started, what it did but not how it ended.
Not known as one who forgives, was it not
surprising that General Buhari walked the
streets with his head high throughout
Obasanjo’s imperial majesty when the fear
of EFCC was the beginning of political
wisdom?
In October 1994, General Sani Abacha
increased the pump price of petrol from
N3.25k to N11.00 per litre. Nigerians
assailed him with criticisms for this
unpopular move and to assuage their
feelings, he quickly established the
Petroleum (Special) Trust Fund to use a
portion of the proceeds of the increase to
intervene in critical sectors of the
economy. Nigerians never took Abacha
seriously on this project until Gen
Muhammadu Buhari was announced and
inaugurated the chairman of the PTF in
March 1995.
That PTF awarded contracts worth billions
of naira is not news. The news the PTF
made within the four years it existed was
and still is that contracts awarded were
executed to their logical conclusion and for
those not executed, the PTF got every
kobo back. Before PTF, contractors were
used to abandoning contracts and bolting
away with their advance payments. It
never happened in PTF. When Buhari
visited the Onitsha end of the Enugu-
Onitsha express way awarded to a local
contractor and discovered the job was
abandoned, he simply called on the bank
that guaranteed the contractor to pay
back. There and then, the contract was
terminated and later awarded to another
contractor. From that moment, banks and
insurance companies that provided bonds
to contractors learnt that the old order had
changed and had to monitor projects it
guaranteed.
For the years it existed, PTF published its
annual reports and always addressed press
conferences to respond to issues arising
from the reports. And each time it did, it
challenged anybody who could deliver on
any of its projects at a price cheaper than
what it cost the PTF to submit his proposal.
Nobody ever did.
In one of the presentations of its annual
report, the Executive Secretary of the
Board of the PTF, Chief Tayo Akpata,
maintained that the roads constructed by
the PTF not only cost less than World Bank
funded roads but were also better
qualitatively. He challenged anyone to
prove the contrary. Until the PTF was
scrapped, nobody did.
While the PTF existed, contractors never
needed to lobby and grease palms to get
LPO’s. You only needed to belong to the
appropriate group of the Manufacturers
Association of Nigeria and other
professional groups to qualify. Not a few
contractors received requests to supply
the PTF in the comfort of their offices. It
was so unbelievably true that some had to
travel to Abuja to reconfirm if the LPO’s
they received were genuine. And genuine
they were.
To be paid for a completed contract, all the
contractor needed was to present a
certificate of completion issued by the
ubiquitous consultants engaged by the PTF
and his cheque would be prepared. And
with a proper letter of introduction, a
contractor could send a third party to pick
his check across a counter in the Finance
Department without any ceremony. Picking
a cheque then was just like walking into a
bank to withdraw cash across the counter.
As staff of Set and Sell Communications Ltd
and later Media Trust Ltd, I personally
picked several cheques on behalf of these
firms. The challenge the finance
department of the PTF faced then was
getting contractors to come and pick their
cheques which would pile up for months as
a good number never knew it was so
simple.
One cannot also forget in a hurry the PTF
drug revolving scheme. Under this, the PTF
set up offices in hospitals across the
country and supplied them with drugs. The
financial consultants employed by the Fund
ensured that receipts from the sales of the
drugs were used to replenish the stocks in
an unending cycle that banished out-of-
stock anthem the Nigerian public were
forced to listen to before then. And it was
not easy to divert PTF drugs to the parallel
market. The smallest tablet supplied had
PTF logo engraved on it. Somebody
attempted diverting the drugs and was
caught. General Buhari took up the case
personally and ensured the culprit went to
jail. After that, nobody heard of diversions
again.
The strategy of the PTF in procuring these
drugs is worth reviewing. Over 60% of the
drugs supplied to the PTF were locally
produced. In fact, the PTF only imported
drugs that could not be produced by the
local pharmaceutical firms. The pressure on
the existing pharmaceutical companies was
so much that almost all these firms had to
increase their capacity by expanding and
employing more hands. Neimeth
Pharmaceuticals , Emzor Pharmaceuticals
among others can be contacted to affirm or
disprove this. This policy was deliberately
made to ensure that more jobs were
created within the economy.
Builders who built for PTF would also tell
you that they were not allowed to import
paints. There was a list of all the paint
manufacturers in the country maintained
at the PTF from which builders bought
paints.
Within the same period, the capacity
utilisation in these companies soared as
they expanded and created more jobs. A
look at the records kept by IPWA plc and
other existing paint makers within the
period under review is worth attempting to
digest the profundity of the PTF
intervention in the building sector; and
other sectors it intervened in as its model
was so overarching that critics labelled it
“the alternative government”.
This column is not enough to put in a
proper perspective the job General Buhari
undertook and did while in PTF but it
suffices through this glimpse to understand
the mindset and the strategy of this
maelstrom which the ruling elite hate for
his forthrightness - a quality in short supply
in governance today.
One can cite the number of roads and
hospitals rehabilitated by the PTF. One can
also quote the billions it spent. The
essence of the PTF, however, lies more in
the multiplier effect its intervention had
on the economy as a whole than in the
number of what it did, which on its own
was equally impressive. This distinction is
what differentiates growth from
development. While the former is
quantitative, the latter is qualitative. As a
political economist, I know that the
economic development of any third world
country lies in qualitative transformation.
Before the coming of PTF, General Ibrahim
Badamasi Babangida had introduced the
Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP)
which he had claimed had no alternative.
The revered economist, Professor Sam
Aluko, had also reminded him that
economics was a science of alternatives;
that even death had an alternative which
was life and that SAP was a kiss of death.
IBB was to acknowledge the failure of SAP
when out of frustration around 1991, he
exclaimed that “the Nigerian economy had
defied all known economic theories and
was surprised that the economy had not
collapsed”.
The economy did not collapse. The PTF
intervention ensured it did not. This was
the lesson OBJ failed to grasp when he
dissolved the Fund with executive fiat in
1999. As at 1997, funds available to the
PTF was about N115 billion and Nigerians
could point at projects the fund was
expended on. A decade after PTF, the
governments from OBJ’s to date had spent
much more than that in the power sector
alone and have not been able to generate
even a megawatt more of electricity.
Managing public funds is serious business.
General Muhammadu Buhari was fond of
telling contractors on visit to sites: “If you
perform well, you get a handshake. If you
perform badly, you get a handcuff”. This is
the mantra we need at this historical
juncture. The man that incarnates this
mantra out of the available presidential
candidates is General Muhammadu Buhari.
There is also a lesson to be learnt from the
day Buhari left PTF. Obasanjo, on
assumption of office, announced the
setting up of the interim management
committee led by Mallam Haroun Adamu
to wind down PTF. The following day,
Buhari addressed a press conference and
invited the new management to
immediately take over. He told Nigerians
that everything the new management
needed were in the records to which they
would have unhindered access. He bid his
staff farewell, descended the stairs,
literally jumped into his four wheel drive
that took him home to Daura. He never
stepped into that premises again to this
day. And he never fled the country to
escape the EFCC.
The likes of Obasanjo should go back to the
military academy to understand “The Art of
War” before going on another offensive.

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impossible for you guys to forgive when
your woman cheats on you? No matter
how much you men love a woman, once
she cheats, it's usually over! Why?
You guys cheat all the time and women
forgive you. But when it's reversed, you
don't forgive. Why? Is it your ego?

Since the announcement of a N3billion
Nollywood grant by President Goodluck
Jonathan, Nollywood has not known
peace again. This is because the
President’s largesse has torn the
industry apart.
While some badly need the money for
their selfish and personal use, others
need the money to judiciously use in
taking Nollywood to the next level.
On Saturday, at Eko Hotel and Suites,
Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
and her counterpart in the Culture
Ministry, Edem Duke, were in Lagos to
mediate on ways to disburse the grant.
Trouble started between Jide Kosoko,
erstwhile president of Association of
Nigerian Theatre Arts Practitioners
(ANTP) and Victor Ashaolu, who is still in
court over the association presidency
with Dele Odule, when Ashaolu sent a
BlackBerry broadcast alleging that Jide
Kosoko was not allowed in the meeting
because he (Ashaolu) was the only
recognised ANTP leader.
In a counter-attack, some youths in
support of Jide Kosoko dispelled
Ashaolu’s claim saying Jide Kosoko is still
their leader because Ashaolu’s matter
has not yet been decided in court.
It was reliably gathered that Jide Kosoko
was allowed in the meeting based on
self recognition by the Minister.
The two leaders have become ‘cat and
rat’ over the presidency of ANTP.

King of fuji music, Adewale Ayuba has
described artistes like D'banj and Davido
as fuji artistes too and not hip hop.
In a chat with entertainment magazine;
Global Excellence, Ayuba said:
'If you are conversant with the
happenings in the Nigerian
entertainment industry, you will find
out that all my brothers that claim they
are doing hiphop like D'banj, Davido and
the rest are all fuji singers. When you
listen to the way they sing, you can see
that the voice is fuji'.
'The beat they put behind it is what
changes it to hip hop and R&B. What
they are doing here is 'tungba' because
immediately you press play, you start
dancing all the way'
47-year old Ayuba, who has had a
successful fuji music career span over
two decades recently released a remix
to one of his classics, "Happy People"
which features artiste Tm9ja and YSG's
rap artiste Vector.

If she could turn back the hands of time,
she would have reversed her first
marriage to her estranged husband. This
was one of the high points of many
issues that dominated discussion when
the delectable Yoruba actress, Mercy
Aigbe, was hosted on O’odua M’oun
M’aworan, on StarTimes recently.
The Edo State born actress, who spoke
on many issues about her life, marriage
and career, was quick to mention that
her regret in life was that she wished
her present hubby Lanre Gentry, was
her first husband, her life would have
been a perfect run.
“I wish my present husband Lanre
Gentry was the first man I got married
to as my husband, my life would have
been a perfect one and my marital life
would have been a smooth ride. But
God understands why he allowed it to
happen that way,” Mercy said.
O’odua M’oun M’aworan is a lifestyle
and entertainment TV Channel on
StarTimes, Channel 204, with its
celebrity host programme aimed at
celebrating the entertainment industry
stakeholders that have contributed to
the growth of the industry with their
talents and time.
The new entertainment channel airing
on the cable TV, Startimes, aims at
changing the phase of the
entertainment world, with its diverse
and exclusive packages.
According to Sola Fajobi, the man behind
the Next Movie Star and CEO of O’odua
M’oun M’aworan, “The O’odua
Television is aimed at delivering credible
alternatives and varieties. The world
becomes more enjoyable and worth
living when you have assorted
alternatives. It is an entertainment
platform targeted at youths.”

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**Vice President -North.
**Senate President -North.
**Speaker House of Reps - North.
**PDP National Chairman - North.
**Head of Service - North.
**INEC Chairman - North.
**Inspector General of Police - North.
**CBN Governor - North.
**Chief Justice of federation - North.
**President Court of Appeal - North.
**EFCC Chairman - North.
**President Federal high court - North.
**National Security Adviser - North.
**Chief of Defense Staff - North.
**Controller, Customs Service - North.
**Controller Prison Services - North.
**Richest man in Africa - North.
**85% of Petroleum Marketers in Nigeria -
Northerners.
**80% of Oil Block Owners in Nigeria -
Northerners.
**99% of beggars in Nigeria - Northerners
**Boko Haram - North.
**Anti-Biafra - Northerners.
Yet, the Poorest states in Nigeria and
Educationally backward areas in Nigeria are
in the North.
Now ask yourself, who is the problem of
the Northerners?

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