By Sunday Wale Adeniran
A man who sold a national asset built for $3.5bn to a crony for $250m whose boss, Olusegun Obasanjo openly accused of embezzling $145m from the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) in 2003; who also in 2010, a US Senate committee report alleged that between 2000 and 2008 through one of his four wives, transferred more than $40m in “suspect funds” into the US from offshore shell companies and report claimed that at least $1.7m of this came from bribes paid by German technology company Siemens, which pleaded guilty to bribery charges in 2008 and agreed to pay a $1.6bn fine wants to rescue Nigeria and fight corruption.
A man who demanded N7.5bn from the man he made his successor as governor in his state and whose aide was found with N200m stolen fund and who was so desperate that he called the last presidential election a religious war with a Bishop wants to rescue Nigeria.
A man who was senate president for eight years but who did not influence federal government to construct the major road that leads to his own town and who stood against Nigeria’s return to democratic rule wants to rescue Nigeria.
A man who removed the best anti-corruption fighter who was the head of the EFCC because he was hindering him from cooperating with big looters to further empty our vault and who gave ‘fulu’ support to the man who made Nigerians to start buying naira wants to rescue Nigeria.
A man who saw as unworthy the lives of the people from southern part of the state he ruled for eight years and therefore did not care about their survival in the face of countless bloody attacks wants to rescue Nigeria.
A man whose wife stole N48bn in just a year and who later, despite that asked the same Nigerian people his wife raped to go out and shed their blood for the country also wants to rescue Nigeria because he is out of top political office for the time since 1999.
A man who supervised the suffering civil servants in his state when he was governor by paying them half of the salaries and who later supervised prison breaks as minister of interior wants to rescue Nigeria too.
A man who as sport minister could not provide kits for the Nigerian contingent to the Rio Olympics, ordinary kits, and who could not resolve the wrongful payment of $135,000 fund from IAAF meant for the AFN that made the International Association of Athletic Federations threatened Nigeria with a sancion, making him one of Buhari’s worst appointees also wants to rescue Nigeria.
A man who used his office as the secretary to the government of the federation to award a grass cutting contract to himself wants to rescue Nigeria.”