Nigerian comic, Alibaba has shared the technique of former President, Olusegun Obasanjo utilized in profitable the presidency.
Alibaba made this disclosure throughout a current episode of the Outdoors the Field Podcast.
“I used to be chatting with Obasanjo one time, and he instructed me, he listed some issues for me,” Alibaba mentioned in the course of the interview. “He mentioned these are the issues which can be essential to win the election. I’m going to learn the chat I had with Obasanjo.”
Whereas making reference to the dialog he had with the previous President, Alibaba quoted Obasanjo saying, “Ali, I’m completely happy you’re catching up with politics however you continue to have lots to be taught, like the way you get governors and presidents elected.”
“You want seven governors to win an election: Lagos, Bayelsa, Delta, Rivers, Kano, Kaduna and the CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria) governor. Then I mentioned Kano and Kaduna don’t have cash, he mentioned that’s for numbers, and what’s cash? That’s numbers too.”
In response to Alibaba, former President, Obasanjo received the presidency as a result of he concerned governors, {economic} figures, worldwide powers, and conventional political godfatherism.
“You want 44 of the most well-liked senatorial districts. You might want to have awarded 10 contracts and 15% of that contract can provide you a marginal affect on the polls. And you could award this contract in your first yr of assumption of workplace,” Alibaba mentioned, quoting Obasanjo once more.
“In the event you don’t do this then, you’ll be able to’t ask the individuals for something as a result of whenever you give them on the first yr of your moving into workplace, when it’s time for elections you simply inform them ‘Do you wish to proceed this contract or not?”
“You need to droop pending circumstances of corrupt previous governors who’re loaded,” Alibaba recalled. “Don’t overlook that these guys have chests, warfare chests that they’re simply sitting and ready for who they wish to align with. Regardless of how a lot EFCC ({Economic} and {Financial} Crimes Fee) milk from them, they nonetheless have lots.”
“These are individuals who had been sitting on a month-to-month federal allocation… like some states that after they get their federal allocation, they don’t contact it. They really add to it as a result of their state’s internally generated income is increased than what the federal offers to them.
“So if the federal authorities offers them N3, they will add N4 to it and spend N7. After they go away workplace, the EFCC can’t come searching for them as a result of they added cash to what the federal authorities gave them. However you see that internally generated income is their sweat as it’s known as, it’s their cash, they generated it themselves. They’ll decide something they wish to do with it.”
“That is the meaty a part of it,” he mentioned. “He says ‘Get US or China’s help due to their companies in your nation, they might help.’”
“Get Nationwide Affiliation of Nigerian College students, market girls, Nationwide Union of Street Transport Employees. Unsettle the organized labour. Get 10 of the richest Nigerians in your facet. Infiltrate opposition events and allow them to decamp earlier than the election. Purchase delegates one yr earlier than the congresses,” he added.
