BUHARI'S RIVERS OF RIGGING FOR OIL Part 2a

BUHARI'S RIVERS OF RIGGING FOR OIL
Part 2a

VITAL INTEREST 1: THE STRATEGIC REASON FOR BUHARI'S MILITARY RIGGING INTERVENTION IN THE RIVERS RIGGING EPISODE

(By Amaso Jack)

"President Buhari looked at Dr. Baker and said, “I hope you have a copy of the election results. The constituents, for example, gave me 97% [of the vote] cannot in all honesty be treated on some issues with constituencies that gave me 5%.”
http://saharareporters.com/2015/07/25/buhari’s-statement-us-institute-peace-made-everyone-cringe-0

"We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow."

Viscount Palmerston, Former British Prime Minister

"Vital national interests are conditions that are strictly necessary to safeguard and enhance Americans' survival and well-being in a free and secure nation."

(A Report from The Commission on America's National Interests
Co-Chairs: Robert Ellsworth, Andrew Goodpaster and Rita Hauser)

https://www.google.com/url…

BACKGROUND:

Buhari's 97% to 5% is the highest manifestation vital interest, for which the rigging in Port Harcourt using the military (as established in the first part) is a tactical expression in the direction of a deeper Strategic intent of the vital interest of the North.

The goal of Rigging was to accomplish the the three fold component of the vital interest of the North, which are:

• Political economic.

• GeoPolitical.

• Ethno religious.

OIL: THE FOCAL POINT OF VITAL INTEREST.

"Femi Falana, Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and human rights lawyer, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari not to renew the licences of oil block owners in the country.

In a letter addressed to the President, dated March 20, 2019, Falana commended him for taking the decision to revoke the licences of some oil block owners.

According to Falana, majority of oil block owners "sub-lease them to offshore companies as they lack the fund and the technical expertise to develop the oil and gas industry".
He noted that if the appropriate action was not taken, he would file a suit against the Nigerian government on the matter."
http://saharareporters.com/…/dont-renew-licences-oil-block-…

The issues of vital interest of petroleum between the South South and Buhari's North are:

• The exploration of oil is in the hands of foreigners.

• The administrative structures of the oil industry are in the hands of the North, as a statement of vital interest, many thanks to Buhari by his vital Interest principle and formula of 97% to 5% is in the hands of his Northerners

• While the oil producing communities are strangers, cut off from the resource in their land.

• The unresolved issue of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) of 2008 or Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB).

• The question of the vital interest of the host communities.

• The nagging question of derivation formula

Major General M. C. Alli, Nigeria's former highly informed Chief of Army Staff, who served under Abacha between December 1993 and August 1994, on 163rd page of his highly informative, 2001 Malthouse Press published book, (written from the perspective of an insider who understood how Nigeria was designed to function) wrote under the work he titled:

"The Federal Republic of the Nigerian Army, The Siege of a Nation", the following:

"Between 1951 and 1970, five revenue allocation formulae by colonial and post-colonial governments emphasized derivation. The Hicks-Phillipson Commission of 1951 and the Binn Commission of 1964 both recommended 50 per cent derivation to the area producing resource..... The Hicks Commission of 1953 by contrast, recommended 100 per cent derivation for resource-bearing areas while in 1958 the Ralsmam-Tree Commission recommended derivation:50 per cent: Region, 30 percent and the central Government, 20 percent. At the end of the civil war, Decree 13 of 1970 was promulgated putting derivation at 45 per cent with the Federal Government controlling offshore oil revenue. Dr Pius Okigbo Commission of 1979, and Professor Ojetunji Aboyade Technical Committee of 1977 recommended that the derivation principle be abolished (Incidentally, both accomplished economists are from two of the big three tribes). Again, no person from the major revenue producing areas of the Niger Delta were members of these dubious contrivances called commissions."

Strategic Observation.

Just the way Africans were not consulted during the scramble for Africa, the owners of the resources were not allowed to have a say.

The economist captured the 1884 scramble for Africa this way:

"The Europeans were slow to seize black Africa, ruthless in doing so, harsh when they had done it—but by no means doers only of harm"https://www.google.com/…/international/1999/12/23/the-scram…

This colonial mindset of occupation, has been reproduced by the Nigerian army in Port Harcourt!

Installing a stooge, for leadership by indirect rule and divide and rule procedures of colonialism with oil in view seems to be the covert reason why the vital interest of the North as represented by Buhari who used the army to rig the elections, considering the fact that some oil block licences have been revoked by Buhari.

Given the Northern vital interest formula of 97%to 5% , Buhari's re allocation formula may trigger fresh unrests.

This is why the army needed to rig a yes man without any political structures in, while giving the impression that Buhari is concerned about the Riveriners who like the Yewa Awori in Ogun have never filled, while in fact, Buhari is only interested in the oil!

VITAL AND VESTED INTEREST

There is a difference between vested interest and vital interest, just as there are differences in the deployment of the words vital interest. Used in connection with an individual with interests in various countries, vital interest is used to define where the most important interests of the individual are domiciled. The reason and depth for the individual's attachment to those vital interests define his/her vested interest.

When used in terms of a people, nation or group, "the Report from The Commission on America's National Interests" becomes our working definition.

From another perspective, Vested Interests are the Interests of the individual, simply put, it means those things pertaining to selfishness and self centeredness for which politicians steal. Vital Interest on the other hand are corporate Interest of the group.

Analytically put, vested interests are the interests of the psychological individual within his/her lifetime, which is "tactical" it begins with his needs and end wants as he travels up Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs; from:

• Physiological Needs, which are the basic human needs of food shelter and clothing. Deployed politically, the Physiological needs of the electorate impoverished by corruption (at the receiving end of vote buying) are the hand out stipends given out to them

• Safety and Security Needs, best illustrated by Chief Gakpo Bomba Yeeh the African Action Congress (AAC) deputy Governorship aspirant in Rivers state, who crossed over from AAC to PDP. Yeeh's vested interest is to protect his political career, just the way Ambode opted to remain in the APC.

• Social Needs these are Belongingness, love needs. The need to belong to the exclusive class of those called honourables, is the vested interest motivation for some who seek legislative office.

• Esteem Needs. The exclusive class of 36, which is one of the 36 state governors, is the vested interest "spa" where the ego finds expression as esteem needs for some and vital interests for others.

• Self-actualizing Needs. The exclusive of the exclusives or the office of the president is the zenith and pinnacle of vested interest and vital interest for which Atiku insists on going to court, the way Buhari before him did.

Vital interests (of the group) are the interests of the contemporary sociological group that tend to be "strategic" and but when those interests outlive successive sociological generations of the same people, they, become anthropological and "grand Strategic".

Sociology is about the contemporary values of a defined group, but when those values are the constant that outlive successive generations (the variable) of the same group over a "transgenerational" period of time, interest becomes a statement in Anthropology.

It is from the perspective of Interest as a statement in Anthropology that Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, the former British Prime Minister, in his speech to the House of Commons on 7 August 1844, he uttered those famous defining words of vital interest, when he said:

"We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow."

UNDERSTANDING VITAL INTEREST OF THE GROUP:

From my article: "AGBAJE! A TITANIC JOURNEY AGAINST SANWO-OLU'S PENTAGON ICEBERG? PART 1",

(first published on my Facebook page, Strategic Politics with Amaso Jack, on March 7, 2019 at 11:33 am) the vital interest Buhari seeks to protect by using the army to rig in Port Harcourt, may be understood, by understanding vital interest as a strategic term, deployed by both South Western Nigeria and the United States, in the article I wrote:

"VITAL INTEREST OF THE SOUTH WEST:

"vital interests as developments that could concretely affect the security or economic future of America and our citizens." Edwin Feulner.https://www.heritage.org/…/what-are-americas-vital-interests
By substituting, America with the South West, the point is clear. The concept of raison d'État, understood within the context of the South West, makes the meaning of vital interest clearer.

"The national interest, often referred to by the French expression raison d'État ("reason of State"), is a country's goals and ambitions, whether economic, military, cultural or otherwise."https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_interest " Amaso Jack.

Continues with Part 2b

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