Welcome to the pilot edition of our quarterly magazine titled “The Politician” a publication that aims to
bring a fresh perspective on all the political happenings across the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The magazine
will consist of “food for thought” articles and exciting interviews of some of the most influential politicians
in the nation. It was Aristotle the Greek Philosopher and Polymath that stated and I quote “Human beings by
nature are political animals” or to put it in Lay mans terms, there’s a politician in each and every one of us.
The word “politics” in many circles is viewed in the same light as profanity, and politicians are mistrusted all
over the world. People often wonder why politicians struggle to fulfil their election pledges, and they cite the
reason for this to be because in their opinion, politicians are by nature dishonest souls, but I disagree.
Many politicians step into public office with the best of intentions but they encounter already established
“power structures” which make the fulfilment of their election pledges an uphill struggle. Let’s look at the power (electricity) sector of our economy. To the ordinary masses it looks like a simple matter. They believe that all
the government has to do is pump several billions of dollars into the sector and case closed. What they did not
factor in is the fact that they’re very powerful people in the society who are making 100’s of Billons of Naira
from the importation of Diesel and they’re not just going to sit down and allow President Jonathan to come and
close down their operation without adequate compensation. President Olusegun Obasanjo led this country for 8
ye ars and throughout that time was he able to solve the electricity problem? No he was not able to, and it wasn’t
because the country didn’t have the money either. In fact the country had so much money that we were able to
pay of our national debt which we owed to the London and Paris club and had $67 Billion dollars left over in
the excess crude account.
Many people may not know this, but the Federal Reserve Bank, America’s central bank, isn’t actually owned
by America and neither is it controlled by the American government. The FED, as it’s popularly known is
owned by private international banks, and what they do is print $dollars, and then borrow those $dollars that
they’ve printed to the American government and charge them interest on it. Can you imagine such a thing?
International bankers came to America, bribed some high ranking politicians (Republican Senator Nelson W
Aldrich) and these bribed Politicians voted in the Federal Reserve act on the 23rd of December 1913, which
basically turned over control of the printing and distribution of the American $dollar to private bankers.
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