As The NLNG Is Ceded To Them, My People ‘Foolishly’ Rant And Not Sanely Act

I read with utter shame and disgust the unfortunate unidirectional thoughts of some Niger Deltans who are blaming and abusing Alh. Aliko Dangote for warming up to buy the Bonny NLNG. Just recently, the Nigerian Senate under Saraki also subtly Okayed the move to sell off the NLNG to Dangote and his ‘hidden’ group (which may be Buhari and the Arab contractors).

Why should Nigerians, especially Niger Deltans pray GOD to punish an innocent man like Dangote whose eyes are on real-time investments not guns and womanising or oppressing the people with his wealth as common practise with most Niger Delta past and present rulers.

Before Dangote flour came to being, there were the Port Harcourt flourmills, Edo State has Steels and mining companies, etc. What’s up with those today? Before the advent of the Dangote Cement, we had the Eagle Cement. Weytin happen to am (what happened to it)? Before Dangote dreamt of venturing into the OIL and GAS business, we had Petroleum ministers, NNPC MDs and GMDs from the South-South who have stolen so much money, yet the Port Harcourt and Warri refineries put together cannot refine one bottle of kerosene for local consumption.

And, they have not bothered to set up a working private refinery in the region even with the stolen money only for Dangote to make the move first? If Government authority was the challenge, we had the Presidency for almost six years. What happened?

Today the worse thieving former Governors in Nigeria are the former Niger Delta Governors. Some of them are richer than Nigeria and even the entire West Africa put together. Funny enough we have some of them as the beautiful brides in the current APC and in the confused PDP. Why can’t they buy up the NLNG instead of allowing Buhari to use Dangote (as predicted)?

In fact, why can’t the people of Bonny, Opobo, Ishekiri, Kalabari, Okrika, Ikwerre, Ishan, Ogbia etc contribute to buy up NLNG so as to template it and claim proper ownership instead of ranting?

Look at this. It was under the former administration (I mean under my dearest leader, father and brother, GEJ) that Dangote was accused of playing the politics that edged out IBETO from manufacturing Cement. Ask yourself where is and was IBETO Cement factory? If these were the truth, would you blame Dangote for scheming so hard to make his business one and only? Think.

Instead of sitting on your keyboards to abuse Dangote, Buhari and the ‘unknown’ Arabs for wanting to buy NLNG, why not advice our political thieves (like our former and present Governors, Senators etc) to front you and buy up the NLNG? We will protest if you were qualified and screened out.

Think again, the only thing working in the entire Niger Delta is said to be owned by Alh. Atiku Abubakar. That thing is in that ‘small’ underdeveloped village called Port Harcourt. Apart from it, what else works in the region?

To my mind Dangote can buy up everything if he can, I really don’t care. Because I know my people can come in twos or in threes to buy up the NLNG, but they wouldn’t. They are so bereft of the benefits of long-term investment(s). Their investments are only on cars, prison yards (highly gated buildings) they call homes, womanising/manising and oppressing their own people with the stolen wealth. It is haram for them to invest in anything meaningful, when the system fails to favour them they’ll mobilise the gullible ones with guns to kill for them.

So, in my considered opinion; if the likes of GEJ, Amaechi, Akpabio. Uduaghan, Odili, Lucky Igbenedion, Wike, Dickson, Udom Emmanuel, Sylva, Omehia, Okowa, Tony Anineh etc cannot form a front or front some Young/Old Niger Deltans to buy up the NLNG with the huge amounts of money they have individually amassed from being in power then what’s the point of criticising Buhari who knows how to empower his people?

We have the chance to make NLNG our own, but we lack the tact, the depth and we intentionally forbid the breath to do so. Instead, we will decide to be reactionary after it must have been successfully ceded to the Arabs via Buhari using Dangote as the conduit. I know, by that time my brothers will be empowered with guns to protest and kill each other. Meanwhile we have an opportunity to right that wrong now, but shamefully we will not.

I make bold to say that Dangote is a good man; he knows what and where to put his money. I support his every move(s) if we’ll learn.

I am,
Maobuye Nangi Obu
A Concerned Niger Deltan.