I love the English with which his ‘defence’ was written. With so much braggadocio the hired think-tank burnished it with. The logicality of the presentation was impressively convincing. I hope he can sue the writer or publisher now that he has disowned it. Many believe that the disavowal was a self-preservation strategy following sound advice!
But let me ask a question based on one claim made therein:
Who organised the fake analysis and published spurious results that “showed” that Dangoté petrol was substandard? That its sulfur content was way too high. But when the analysis was done afresh (with NASS committee oversight), comparatively with samples from imported ones on sale at filling stations, it was found that only Dangoté’s petrol was in specicification while all the others were grossly out of spec!
Who did that crude, fraudulent and sabotage-loaded shenanigan? Who?
It is too early for us to forget. It is a crying shame that some so-called activists now talk glibbly of monopoly. Where were they when this investor had to build roads and bridges, construct a sea port, build a power plant just to enable him build and operate a refinery to serve us? Where were they when he was procuring billions of dollars in loans to build the world’s biggest single-train refinery? Do they prefer the allegedly corruption-laden importation that benefitted a few potentates and refiners/blenders abroad?
Why was the high falutin, detailed rebuttal already published, with claims of impeccable integrity with an embedded resumé, disowned? Does it mean the claim by the accused, of his readiness to be investigated, was mere showboating?
Those who came out in defence of the accused, especially out of hatred for this investor who has done what even they did not allow government to do, for their selfish interest, should advise the accused to go to court! Then follow him as witnesses, not with their prejudices in tow, but with the evidence they have got, climb the witness box and present them before a judge.
That will prove to the rest of us that they were not merely talking due to previous egunjé received or a strategy to keep the drain channels open. The same shenanigans that drained billions of dollars without a litre of petrol to show! Some of the huge real estates I see now look suspiciously oily and smelling of mismanaged TAM funds channeled through deliberate undersighting by the oversighter. Hope you get my drift!
Some talkative folks going on TV talk-shows to defend the indefensible seem to be putting on a show like one GMD did at a dead refinery. He wore a hard hat and a “journalist’s jacket” and bold-facedly told us production was on. He had empty parked tankers under a loading gantry as evidence! He thought he was fooling the nation, but he ended up fooling himself! His subterfuge was corroborated by the oversighting authority. Remember?
Let those who do not know how much Dangoté knows, or has experienced, please take it easy. Remember those who berated Otedola, and defended the accused when the other Farouk-gate broke years ago? They did not visit the man in his lonely prison cell when the “come came to become”. Mbadiwe will be proud of this use of his coinage, decades on! Be careful when following a dog with its tails between its legs, panting on a lonely footpath. Another Farouk bites the dust!
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