· Jittery over President Buhari's rejection of her $250 million loot
· Vows to reveal her cohorts in the pillage of the petroleum sector
Diezani Alison-Madueke refused to live each day by the wisdom of the ancients, back when she was Nigeria's petroleum minister. Diezani lived arrogantly, courting trouble by treating each day with contempt, taunting Karma and tomorrow. Now that comeuppance stares her in the face, the dark menace of retribution makes a coward of her.
Diezani is afraid. The former petroleum minister has eventually crashed from her high horse; more interestingly, she has found her voice. In abject fear of prosecution and jail-term, she has started singing like a bird, belting out names of her cohorts in the grand conspiracy by which they looted the coffers of Nigeria's petroleum industry and the state's treasure chest. Diezani, in sharp contradiction to her demeanour while she enjoyed the protection of former President Goodluck Jonathan, has embarked on a hilarious and desperate quest to establish herself as a heroine or saint of sort. Hence her recent bid to refund $250 million, being part of her cut from the public fund looted on her watch as petroleum minister, to President Muhammadu Buhari. Of course, the latter rejected her offer thus casting her in a desolate state.
The Capital findings revealed that, in the wake of the incumbent president's decision to probe her administration as Nigeria's former petroleum minister, Diezani has been telling friends and family that she is not going to go down alone. She has vowed to spill the beans and reveal all the people who have the proceeds of the oil industry with them. She said she was lured into the deals by some men in the oil sector who have now dumped her like bad habit. She is desperate to return everything she acquired as the minister of petroleum.
But despite her frantic posturing and overnight valour, Diezani will continue to be seen as a corrupt person, a ‘painted devil’ pretending to be a saint; no matter what radical action she now takes or how tough she talks, she will be seen as nothing but a pitiful coward affecting the candour of an accidental heroine.
By Tope Johnson
The Capital
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