Buhari not qualified to sign oil and gas contracts

Buhari not qualified to sign oil and gas contracts On Monday, February 15, Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, the African Hitler, announced to the world that he has deployed more troops to the Niger Delta (a part of Biafraland), to protect oil pipelines in the region. He said also that it was meant to stop incessant kidnapping in the region. But his overall message did not sit well with Biafrans. The people saw it as similar to old lie-lines, which was as spurious as other messages given by past Nigerian governments to dubiously exploit Biafraland. To them, the reason was simply for the renewal of oil blocks and oil contracts among Nigerian power hawks. The power hawks are internal colonizers – Fulani and Yoruba – whose interest Buhari was meant to protect. They had two things to contend with – Goodluck Jonathan; and Biafran agitators (freedom fighters). For Goodluck Jonathan, who was incumbent President at the time and hails from Biafraland, they were not sure he would favour them with oil-block allocations and oil contracts as had been the case since 1967. The fact is that Fulanis of the North and Yorubas of the West have been the people usurping up to 95 per cent of oil-block that are in Biafraland. Then the remaining five per cent they share among their stooges, the quislings who help them to hold their own people down. The subsisting allocation was to end by 2016 for a new allocation to be done, and they feared that Jonathan, as a Biafran would not allow the injustice to continue, and so had to be smuggled out of the Presidency. The other fear about Jonathan was because he fashioned out a Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) with Deziani Madueke, his oil minister that would give more benefits to oil producing communities. The Nigerians were afraid that Jonathan would cause the bill to be passed into law if he were allowed to win the election. So because the internal colonizers – Fulani and Yoruba – did not like it, Jonathan had to be thrown out by any means possible. For the Biafran agitators, the internal colonizers believed Jonathan would not be able to apply the strong arm tactics needed against to hold them down. They believed Buhari, a Fulani school dropout whose only qualification is that he hated Biafrans. “Igbos hated me because of my involvement in Biafra war (Igbos are Biafrans). If I have another opportunity, I will kill them to keep Nigeria one” he had declared last year. So Biafrans knew that Buhari’s decision to deploy troops to the Niger Delta in Biafra was to cow the people into submission. They knew that Buhari had two things in mind by deploying troops to that area of Biafra land. He hoped to either provoke another Biafra/Nigeria war or to cow the people into silence. Whichever way, he knew he stood to win. If war eventually breaks out, countries sympathetic to Nigeria would help him with funds to prosecute the war and cater for displaced people, in which case his cash-strapped government would get a reprieve. But if the people refuse to respond in kind and there is no war, it would mean they had been cowed them into a semblance of peace, then investors would bring in their moneys for investment. Already with their campaigns and warnings to countries and companies interested in the oil and gas in Biafraland to steer clear of Buhari, they knew what Buhari was about. They had been warning that any country or company signing contract with Nigeria concerning resources in Biafraland were doing so at their own peril. They had claimed the contraption called Nigeria had legally seized to exist. They have argued consistently and convincing too that the contraption called Nigeria, which was formed in 1914 by Britain and given a lifespan of 100 years, expired in 2014. Their contention had been that the ethnic nationalities locked together against their will in Nigeria must be allowed to exit. With that argument, they insisted that Buhari as President of the expired country was not qualified to enter into any agreement that would be binding on Biafran people. They had consistently advised Buhari to organize a referendum for the nations locked up in Nigeria so that Biafrans would go their own way. But they have not relented in their campaigns and warnings to foreign countries and investors not to sign any contract with Buhari and Nigeria concerning resources in Biafraland such as oil. They said Buhari was already and illegal leader leading an illegal country, and therefore any agreement he signs on behalf of Biafrans would not be binding on the people. The people are insisting that any kind of peace that Buhari may be able to enforce in Biafraland for now, would only be the peace of the graveyard, because there are signs that the people will still rise up violent agitation with Biafra Resistance Force (BRF). Even before the Biafra Resistance Forces gets into the picture, communities and their youths will not seat idly by and watch Nigeria continue to steal their resources. It was therefore not a surprise that a new resistant group Niger Delta (NDA) struck few days ago, Thursday, February 18, by bombing Forcados major oil pipeline in Burutu, Delta State. On that basis they warn foreign countries and companies that signing any agreement with Buhari as touching on Biafran oil and gas would be ill-advised and that Biafrans will not honour such an agreement. On same basis they have declared Buhari and Nigeria as unqualified to speak for them.