APC Mentality.

What this guy Imo Jonathan is describing here is exactly in detail, the steps that were taken by the APC to bring down the government of His Excellency Dr Goodluck Jonathan.Now they want us to believe that is what the PDPis doing to destabilise them, and the reason for their planlessness, cluelessness and absolute failure. Read on to get a feel of APC myopic and delusional mentality.

By Imo Jonathan.
IN CASE YOU ARE STILL WONDERING WHAT IS GOING ON IN NIGERIA

Yes there is a new government in power but the criminals are still very much around. If you think that by electing one man called Buhari magic will happen, then you are seating on a long thing. Buhari is not a spirit and he alone cannot change Nigeria. People like change but they don’t want to change. We are all needed to rise to the occasion, we need to take the battle from where we left it off after the election and see to the final defeat of the enemies of Nigeria. 

In case you don’t know, there is an oil cabal created, empowered and sponsored by the PDP, they own vast infrastructure and fuel stations in Nigeria and they are sabotaging this government by: (a) diverting products (b) hoarding (c) selling above pump price (d) selling to black marketers rather than to motorists (e) diverting products to their tank farms instead of selling at the station (f) selling with limited pumps at their station; and (g) refusing to lift fuel from the port. 

Many of the people who own fuel stations in Nigeria are associates of criminals in PDP and they are all ganging up against Buhari because it is part of their kind of politics. Most of the fake billionaires in oil and gas are PDP creations and many of them will be exposed if they go against the cabal. They are under obligation to serve PDP interest and they know that when scarcity persists Nigerians will revolt against the government; thus they are pulling the strings. Politics  

But for a few number of dealers in the industry who are not under the control PDP cabal it would have been worst. For example you can see some of the fuel dealers who are not part of the cabal like Otedola (Forte oil who left the cabal because they betrayed him under Jonathan) OANDO, Masters Energy and a few others selling fuels regularly at normal price. Even some NNPC dealers are part of the cabal because PDP men in the civil service gave them licenses. 

The second issue is electricity and that is no longer a purely government business. But unfortunately the critical segment of the industry was given out free to PDP business partners who are now collecting monthly bills without supplying power and are also sabotaging this government. They pay bad boys in the oil industry to burst gas pipelines so that GENCOs cannot generate electricity and force the DISCOs to buy. Even if Buhari will wish to do anything to the DISCOs, it will not be immediate because there will be no justification. The PDP power cabal perfected their wickedness over the years. They gave national infrastructure to their friends in the name of privatization and turn around to dash them billions in the name of bailout. 

Meanwhile beneficiaries of the privatization are supposed to be investors who were to bring the needed funds that government does not have into the sector. Rather than bring investment, these men simply hijacked national infrastructure and are using it to milk Nigerians dry. It is over three years since they got the national assets and they have refused to invest kobo in the industry. Ordinary prepaid meter that will ensure that citizens are paying for what they consume they have refused to bring. 

These DISCOs even when power is adequately generated are not interested in buying because whether they supply electricity or not they will collect money from gullible Nigerians. I call them gullible because they never fight for their right. From community to community Nigerians are unable to organize themselves to seek redress; they are waiting for FELA in the grave or Nigerian police that are now the house of corruption. Their lack of understanding of citizens’ power and citizens’ role in governance is the problem. 

So, they don’t have to give Nigerians electricity but they will collect money from them. And if Buhari wants to force them he cannot because they have undeniable excuse for not supplying electricity. The gas pipeline is constantly damaged. Buhari does not force Nigerians to pay for what they did not use and he is not a spirit to monitor gas pipelines and supply to the generating companies who are losing money daily because of activities of vandals. 

These guys were supposed to be investors but they are not. GEJ gave them our national assets for free and turn around to give them over 600 billion naira in power bailout. And after that most of them used the power infrastructure as collateral to borrow monies and converted these monies to personal uses instead of producing meters, transformers, electric poles and other distribution infrastructures that will boost power supply. And it will be worst if Buhari makes the mistake of collecting the companies back from them, Nigeria will inherit the debt they have incurred.

In addition to that, criminals in PDP were busy deceiving Nigerians, claiming that they were going to generate billions of megawatts when they were not even investing in transmission infrastructure. PDP spent over 36 billion dollars over a period of 13 years and could not generate 2500megawatts, while China spent 25 billion dollars in 11 years to generate 22, 000 megawatts. And after spending all that money those armed robbers sold the infrastructure to themselves at no cost. And to get it fixed apart from sabotage is not a year or two years issue, especially where there is no fund. 

But even if Nigeria were to generate one billion megawatts today, it will not be available for use because TCN, the transmission company does not have capacity to evacuate more than 5,500 megawatts. The installed capacity is 7,500 megawatts or thereabout. But the infrastructure is old and is wasting energy on transit. The nation requires 1 trillion naira annual investment in transmission infrastructure over the next ten years to gain proper balance. But it is doable. 

But in the meantime, ordinary citizens must rise up and stop paying for electricity not used and not supplied. It is the citizens who should stop being lazy blaming Buhari and rather demand that there should be no bill without prepaid meter and no payment without electricity supply. If they think Buhari is a spirit who will do everything for them while they seat their lazy ass to complain, they will die for nothing. 

THE CABAL KNOWS THAT ONCE THEY BURST OIL AND GAS PIPELINES AND MAKE THIS TWO ENERGY SOURCES PROBLEMATIC, YOU WILL BLAME BUHARI AND WILL NOT BOTHER TO KNOW THE REAL SOURCE OF YOUR PROBLEM.

If 26 army generals and untouchables are cooling off in prisons, you should expect their civilian counterparts to go to war before the corruption probe will get to them. The ongoing probe is still much around defence sector, other sectors dominated by PDP and their crime partners are yet to be probed and they will rather this house collapse before we get there.  

But members of the APC and their leaders must take the blame for not moving fast to develop capacity and to license their members across the federation to build distribution chain since those who have fuel stations already are using them as political instrument to hound the government and the party. 

Again APC could have been proactive by using its members across the length and breadth to form taskforce to monitor distribution and sells of petroleum products. The party should have through the taskforce made up of members entered into agreement with the NNPC to serve as a buffer to DPR to monitor events across the federation since the agency does not have enough staff to do this job. 

 APC need to break away from the national grid bushtit and intensify imbedded power, diversified and power mix and as well consider state grid rather than the humongous problematic over centralized power structure. PDP’s disjointed power plan should be discontinued. PDP’s stupid idea of building independent gas power generating plants far from gas sources should be discontinued. There was no sense in constructing gas pipelines from Niger Delta to other parts of the Nigeria to generate electricity when you could have had all your gas power stations domiciled in the zone and the power will be fired into the national grid for national consumption?

But APC must sit up. The histories of these cabals are known and they were here before APC was elected. APC leaders need to look Buhari eye ball to eye ball and tell him the fact. The man means well but he cannot do this job alone. BUHARI BELONG TO EVERYBODY BUT THIS IS APC GOVERNMENT. Buhari is like every other member of the party who worked for the victory of the party. He may be the arrowhead and a very influential one at that BUT A TREE DOES NOT MAKE A FOREST. 

As a matter of speed, APC must pressure Buhari to sack all PDP appointees in the APC government, including those that were illegally recruited into the civil service and INEC at various times and levels, and who now form part of the saboteurs in this government. It is expected that the party in power will be held responsible including its members across board. There is no justification to have PDP appointees of any kind in an APC government that does not make sense. 

In fact, Buhari should have a special way of empowering APC members. Social safety programmes and affirmative contracts could be designed to empower party members so that they will have the resources to help government implement it’s policies. He cannot deny that APC members spent money to elect this government and should be rewarded. Even the Bible says a labourer is worthy of his wages.

Even if Buhari is not expected to give APC members free money like the PDP did, it is not bad to give them contracts in their areas of core competencies. You cannot convince me to believe that people should work and not get rewarded. And there is no reason to leave party members out of a government they helped to create when PDP members are inside sabotaging it. 

APC members cannot continue to answer questions on the streets of Nigeria when PDP people are the ones running government. To the extent that are PDP elements in the villa forming structures like I Stand With Buhari and Rebirth Nigeria, when groups that originally supported Buhari in the tick of the political battle are being neglected. 

THERE IS ONGOING WAR AGAINST THIS GOVERNMENT, SABOTEURS INSIDE AND PDP CABALS OUTSIDE ARE USING ALL IN THEIR ARSENAL TO ATTEMPT TO BRING DOWN THIS REGIME. ESPECIALLY FOR DARING TO FIGHT CORRUPTION AND FOR INSISTING THAT THINGS MUST BE DONE RIGHTLY.

 With the support of the evil servants who were aiding and benefiting from corruption the cabal is turning the heat on Buhari and Nigerians are not interested in hearing stories. Evil servants whose annual salaries are ten million but have properties worth billions in Abuja are also fighting because very soon the search will expose them. 

NIGERIANS MUST WAKE AND FIGHT BECAUSE IT IS ABOUT THEIR COLLECTIVE FUTURE AND THE FUTURE OF THEIR CHILDREN UNBORN. ENOUGH OF JUST COMPLAINING, THEY MUST NOT ALLOW EVIL MEN TO DETERMINE THEIR OUTCOME. THIS IS ONE GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO GET THEIR COUNTRY BACK BY SUPPORTING BUHARI BECAUSE OD DETERMINATION TO CHANGE NIGERIA.