Blinken’s conversation with Tinubu came a day after the US announced visa restrictions on Nigerians who allegedly disrupted the recently concluded elections. He knows that Tinubu came out of an election that was fraught with irregularities and was wounded, but the same person and the people he represents think it does not matter. Fela Anikulapo saw this long time ago when he described how they would promote one unscrupulous person from a country, make him so rich, and use him as a conduit pipe to milk his people.
Only an African President, in this case Nigerian President looking for validation, would likely look the other way when economic and social robbers invade his country to commit their heist. Nigerian leaders must demonstrate the capacity to end oil theft in the Niger Delta, which is the poverty capital of the world.
This would help the US weapons factories survive, and prevent the son of potential Nigerian President from buying a £11million house in the UK or a $500,000 motorcycle out of the Presidential Villa. This would also ensure the steady flow of stolen money from Aso Rock officials, their thieving counterparts in the National Assembly and other Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to the US and hope to get kisses from Washington. Blinken would never have called a Nigerian President that boasted of his capacity to run the country without foreign loans.
John Magufuli, the fifth President of Tanzania, died in office in 2021 due to refusing to pander to foreign interests. Mobutu Sese Seko, Thomas Sankara, and Mommar Gadaffi have all been accused of treachery in their relationship with Africa.
Libya has become a massive killing field, promoted by warlords who have carved fiefdoms for themselves. America, Britain and France have returned home to watch the bedlam in Benghazi and Sirte. The $500billion Libyan money in foreign banks has been confiscated and shared among themselves, while the “liberated” Libyans are now stewing in their own juices.
