Did ex-President Goodluck Jonathan have
a premonition that he would lose the March 28 presidential elections? There are
pointers to the fact that his actions prior to the elections proved that things
might not work his way at the polls when he refused to renew Nigeria’s oil
contract with one of the most influential oil brokers in the world named the
Seven Sisters.
Strong sources close to the Presidency
hinted Beth News that Nigeria’s ex-president was contacted severally to renew
the oil contract by the Seven Sisters whom we learnt are the major controllers of
the world oil sector, but on each occasion, they were rebuffed by the
Otuoke-born zoologist.
Inversely, the group turned to General
Muhammadu Buhari who as at then was the flag bearer of the All Progressives
Congress, then the major opposition party in Nigeria. The Seven Sisters, we
learnt invited Buhari to Britain where they met before his famous Chartam House
appearance.
At the meeting, it was learnt that Rtd.
General Buhari made a promise to seal a deal with the Seven Sisters if elected
the president of Nigeria. This prompted the Seven Sisters to turn their back on
all communications with the Jonathan administration, and their full support on
Buhari which finally led to the total defeat of the former at the polls due to the
commanding influence of the group internationally.
Recall that it was once predicted that before
the end of 2015 Nigeria would split, it is only God’s intervention that made
this not to come to pass as we all saw how they started with the late Libyan leader,
Colonel Muammar Gadhafi just because he failed to renew the country’s oil
contract with the Seven Sisters.
Who are the Seven Sisters and how do
they operate? Exxon, Gulf, Texaco, Mobil, Socal, BP, and Shell, five huge
American companies, one British company, and one Anglo-Dutch concern dominated
the world of oil for most of the century following the first Pennsylvania
strike. How did this largest and most critical of the world's industries come
under the control of these seven giants, and what will happen to them now,
balanced on the tightrope between the demands of consumers and their
partnership with the producing countries of OPEC?
Throughout the region's modern history, since the discovery of oil, the Seven Sisters have sought to control the balance of power. They have supported monarchies in Iran and Saudi Arabia, opposed the creation of OPEC, profiting from the Iran-Iraq war, leading to the ultimate destruction of Saddam Hussein and Iraq.
The Seven Sisters were always present, and almost always came out on top. Since that notorious meeting at Achnacarry Castle on August 28, 1928, they have never ceased to plot, to plan and to scheme.
Throughout the region's modern history, since the discovery of oil, the Seven Sisters have sought to control the balance of power. They have supported monarchies in Iran and Saudi Arabia, opposed the creation of OPEC, profiting from the Iran-Iraq war, leading to the ultimate destruction of Saddam Hussein and Iraq.
The Seven Sisters were always present, and almost always came out on top. Since that notorious meeting at Achnacarry Castle on August 28, 1928, they have never ceased to plot, to plan and to scheme.
At the end of the 1960s, the Seven
Sisters, the major oil companies, controlled 85 per cent of the world's oil
reserves. Today, they control just 10 percent.
New hunting grounds are therefore
required, and the Sisters have turned their gaze towards Africa. With peak oil,
wars in the Middle East, and the rise in crude prices, Africa is the oil
companies' new battleground.
But the real story, the secret story of
oil, begins far from Africa.
In their bid to dominate Africa, the
Sisters installed a king in Libya, a dictator in Gabon, fought the
nationalisation of oil resources in Algeria, and through corruption, war and
assassinations, brought Nigeria to its knees.
Oil may be flowing into the holds of
huge tankers, but in Lagos, petrol shortages are chronic.
The country's four refineries are
obsolete and the continent's main oil exporter is forced to import refined
petrol - a paradox that reaps fortunes for a handful of oil companies.
Encouraged by the companies, corruption
has become a system of government - some $50bn are estimated to have
'disappeared' out of the $350bn received since independence.
But new players have now joined the
great oil game.
China, with its growing appetite for
energy, has found new friends in Sudan, and the Chinese builders have moved in.
Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir is proud of his co-operation with China - a
dam on the Nile, roads, and stadiums.
In order to export 500,000 barrels of
oil a day from the oil fields in the South - China financed and built the
Heglig pipeline connected to Port Sudan - now South Sudan's precious oil is
shipped through North Sudan to Chinese ports.
In a bid to secure oil supplies out of
Libya, the US, the UK and the Seven Sisters made peace with the once shunned
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, until he was killed during the Libyan uprising of
2011, but the flow of Libyan oil remains uninterrupted.
In need of funds for rebuilding, Libya
is now back to pumping more than a million barrels of oil per day. And the
Sisters are happy to oblige.get more stories from Beth News magazine
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