President Goodluck Jonathan and his inner circle
have begun new moves to jettison elections altogether, hoping that
members of the National Assembly will agree to postpone polls once again
and instead settle for a so-called interim national government,
according to information received from several sources, one of them
embedded in the Presidency in Abuja.
The sources disclosed that Mr. Jonathan, Petroleum Minister
Diezani Alison-Madueke, the chairman of the PDP’s board of trustees,
Tony Anenih, Ondo State Governor, Olusegun Mimiko and Ijaw political
figure, Edwin Clark, were the main players in the new scheme. They are
reportedly determined to sell their new plan to a small nucleus of key
legislators at the National Assembly to discuss how best to recruit
supporters, sources knowledgeable about the astonishing plot revealed.
The team pushing this new idea, one source said, is operating on the
premise that it would be “dangerous to hand over power to Muhammadu
Buhari.” Ms. Alison-Madueke was reported to be a hawkish pusher of the
idea, with one of our sources adding that the Petroleum Minister was
extremely anxious about the prospect of a Buhari Presidency exposing her
numerous shady deals in the oil sector through which she and a few
players selected by her have drained billions of dollars of oil revenues
into their private holdings.
Ms. Alison-Madueke has assured the group that some officials of the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) as well as several
big-time beneficiaries of oil sector deals, including importers of
refined fuel, were committed to the plan and willing to provide slush
funds to pay a bribe of $2 million dollars to each senator and $1
million to key members of the House of Representatives to persuade them
to endorse the plot to derail elections permanently and install an
interim national government. The president is working through officials
of the NNPC to fund the massive bribe scheme.
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